MetaFic

THere are a million of these. It's almost why fan fiction was invented. But there are questions that bear asking, and that have been answered by someone, surely.

I downloaded iBooks Author the other day and began thinking about making Phantom Limb into the media-rich mess I'd always imagined. Embedded music (of my own) and artwork (not my own, as I can only draw pictures that make my little girl laugh) and typefaces and formatting that I like. Really interesting. Especially when I'm trying to avoid doing something useful, like finishing the story. Then I thought - I wonder if the iBook Store has a policy covering derivative fiction, and I wonder if (since I'd be distributing it for free) I'd get into trouble.

Thought I'd drop in and say hello, let people know what I'm up to, what I'm writing.

Leaving aside the normal 'real life ' stuff (including the fact I'm back to taking exams at 50) I'll let you know what I'm working on.

I sense that I'm on the way out of HP fanfic, but I don't think I'm alone in that. The last thing I published - The Day That Ginny Weasley Came To Stay - received some very hostile feedback including accusations of it being misogynistic and seemed to indicate that what I have to offer doesn't fit the mood.

"Keeping Tabs" was both my Week 2 and Week 5 story at Clarion.

I want you to imagine for a moment that I began my story another way, that - rather than gradually opening your eyes to this raveled and many-eyed creature on your chest staring back at you - you awakened, as all readers do when reading a story for the first time, to a dream of great clarity and a moment of realization. Yes. Awakened to a dream.

I just posted my next chapter. I'm very curious to hear what people think of it. It's definitely a tangent, and that must come as a shock to those accustomed to my economical and highly focused prose, but I'm thinking a lot about what it is to tell a story (since that's a sub-theme in this one), and so here are a few. Anyway, please enjoy.

Title: The Day that Ginny Weasley Came to Stay

Rating: R

Summary: Harry struggles to deal with his hormones whilst Ginny tries to find herself. A Post DH bit of fun featuring a manipulative but genial Kreacher, a Genre Savvy Harry and a new Mistress of the Most Noble and Ancient House of Black.

Word Count: 5329

http://parakletosfics.livejournal.com/7970.html

Sorry for the non-working link

I recently found myself with a precious weekend day free, and during that time I managed to finally (finally!) finish drafting the next chapter of MoO2. A while after that, I actually managed to edit the thing and send it into the beta process. I'm sure that process will take a while, but I thought I should put out the word that things are creeping forward.

Title: The Ever-Locked Room
Author: scarysnapey
Pairing: Harry/Ginny, James Potter, Lily Potter, Kingsley Shacklebolt
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 6805
Summary: There is something Harry knows that he cannot teach her, a spell that her lips won’t form, a game with rules that don’t make sense. Harry marries Ginny with such a strong sense of what love is that Ginny has no time to figure it out for herself.

Read it, you won't regret it.

http://community.livejournal.com/takingitinturns/43549.html#cutid1

Had a great laugh at the expense of this fic, where the sex is bad and Mrs Malaprop rules.

Here is an example:

she stopped her menstruations releasing him with a wet pop sound

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6859434/1/Black_Bond_Black_Order