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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.

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

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

The Write Magazine currently has an open house on their website so visitors can see stuff normally available to members.

http://www.writermag.com

Stumbled across this on fanfic.net.

It's premise is Slytherin Harry looking after a newly sorted Slytherin Ginny. Its an Idea I've played around with for a while on and off a but never published and its quite nice to see decent stab being made at it. Not quite as dark or as formal as my efforts but still worth a read.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6632235/1/Serpentine_Serenade

Over at H&G OTP on Lj the nominations are open for their Best of 2010 awards

These tend to be a bit incestuous, but that doesn't mean that good writers and artists can't win as well. There is no "This is the same tired plot device but you'll love it anyways (sic)" award but perhaps next year :p

It's that time of year again! 2010 may have come and gone, but the fabulous fic and gorgeous artwork we loved all year stays with us. Which pieces will you remember? What stories have you added to your list of favourites over the last twelve months?

I want to write, but can't get focussed. So......

I'm looking for five prompts, H&G of course, from people. However, there is a twist; it has to be a rewrite. It can be a fic you love or one you hate. It will be a minimum 500 words but unlikely to be multi-chaptered.

Any takers?

Update: I have 1000 words for the first but I'm struggling on the second one. I keep writing them older than they are supposed to be.

First Prompt: Harry and Sirius on the run together.
Second prompt: Teenage Harry and Ginny together on an adventure
X posted to LJ

I'm still reading Elements of Fiction Writing - Beginnings, Middles & Ends, by Nacy Kress and have continued to listen to Fledgling as I slowly level my WoW characters to 85. I've now finished Fledgling and I am ready to pronounce judgement :)

I was reading the book, Elements of Fiction Writing - Beginnings, Middles & Ends, by Nacy Kress again this week and she suggested at the end of the first chapter that we go back and read stuff we liked and disliked at looked at the openings and see how strong - or not- they were.

I tend to start my chapters in a passive manner such as the opening paragraph from the first chapter of Twelve Months: