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Hurtfest Reveals
Apr. 21st, 2014 09:18 amReveals for Hurtfest went up last Friday, and I wrote two things for it!
Title: Stop All the Clocks (This Is the Last Time I’m Leaving Without You)
Pairing(s)/Character(s): Harry/Draco, Harry/OMC, Ron/Hermione
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: character death
Word Count: 44k
Summary: Living with Draco was difficult; living without him is unbearable. But if there’s one thing Harry learned from the war, it’s that even when one life ends, the rest of the world goes right on living.
I'd originally signed up to write for Hurtfest because at that point I was only writing romance and humor, and I wanted to push myself and my writing in a different direction to branch out a bit. I picked![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
writcraft's prompt because it specifically asked for character death and I felt that making myself write angst would be easier if I had a prompt that didn't allow me to write a happy ending for it. Which turned out to be a good thing, because I ended up getting so attached to these characters and their life together that if I could have written them a happily-ever-after, I absolutely would have.
It was very difficult for me to write, but I am extremely proud of how this story turned out. I love pretty much everything about it, and I feel that it's definitely some of my best writing so far, if not THE BEST thing I've ever written. It's certainly the most honest. And I'm a little overwhelmed by the response to this one. I assumed most people would take one look at almost 45k of character death and click the back button just as fast as they could, but they didn't. I've received some of the most amazing comments on this, and it's been amazing to watch people talking about it as much as they have.
Title: And I Know the Spark
Pairing(s)/Character(s): Harry/Draco
Rating: NC-17
Warnings:6th and 7th year AU, infidelity, dub-con/non-con, torture, character death of minor OCs (including children)
Word Count: 15k
Summary: All Draco cares about is keeping Potter alive, and he’ll do whatever it takes to make sure that happens.
This one was a pinch hit. I'd actually written it around the time I first started posting, but it was so wildly different than anything else I'd done that I just saved it away in the depths of my writing folder and then sort of forgot about it. When I volunteered to pinch hit, I pulled it out again, figuring it'd just need a little bit of editing and I could turn it in, but that didn't quite happen as planned. Of the original story, I think I only kept about 4-5k of writing, and then entirely rewrote the rest of it, adding an extra 5,000 words in the process. Through the endless rewriting on this, it was really interesting for me to see just how much my writing has changed in the last six months.
Hurtfest was my first anonymous fest, and it was such a fun experience for me. Thank you to everyone who read and commented and recced during the fest, and who messaged me or sent me emails over the last couple of days. You're all wonderful and your words have meant so much to me. I'm going to be a little bit slow in responding, because these comments and messages were so wonderful (and I still can't believe that some of you took the time to leave me such long comments!) that a simple "thank you" won't be nearly enough as a response. I don't think words will be enough to express how much I appreciated everything, but I'm sure as heck going to try.
Title: Stop All the Clocks (This Is the Last Time I’m Leaving Without You)
Pairing(s)/Character(s): Harry/Draco, Harry/OMC, Ron/Hermione
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: character death
Word Count: 44k
Summary: Living with Draco was difficult; living without him is unbearable. But if there’s one thing Harry learned from the war, it’s that even when one life ends, the rest of the world goes right on living.
I'd originally signed up to write for Hurtfest because at that point I was only writing romance and humor, and I wanted to push myself and my writing in a different direction to branch out a bit. I picked
writcraft's prompt because it specifically asked for character death and I felt that making myself write angst would be easier if I had a prompt that didn't allow me to write a happy ending for it. Which turned out to be a good thing, because I ended up getting so attached to these characters and their life together that if I could have written them a happily-ever-after, I absolutely would have.It was very difficult for me to write, but I am extremely proud of how this story turned out. I love pretty much everything about it, and I feel that it's definitely some of my best writing so far, if not THE BEST thing I've ever written. It's certainly the most honest. And I'm a little overwhelmed by the response to this one. I assumed most people would take one look at almost 45k of character death and click the back button just as fast as they could, but they didn't. I've received some of the most amazing comments on this, and it's been amazing to watch people talking about it as much as they have.
Title: And I Know the Spark
Pairing(s)/Character(s): Harry/Draco
Rating: NC-17
Warnings:6th and 7th year AU, infidelity, dub-con/non-con, torture, character death of minor OCs (including children)
Word Count: 15k
Summary: All Draco cares about is keeping Potter alive, and he’ll do whatever it takes to make sure that happens.
This one was a pinch hit. I'd actually written it around the time I first started posting, but it was so wildly different than anything else I'd done that I just saved it away in the depths of my writing folder and then sort of forgot about it. When I volunteered to pinch hit, I pulled it out again, figuring it'd just need a little bit of editing and I could turn it in, but that didn't quite happen as planned. Of the original story, I think I only kept about 4-5k of writing, and then entirely rewrote the rest of it, adding an extra 5,000 words in the process. Through the endless rewriting on this, it was really interesting for me to see just how much my writing has changed in the last six months.
Hurtfest was my first anonymous fest, and it was such a fun experience for me. Thank you to everyone who read and commented and recced during the fest, and who messaged me or sent me emails over the last couple of days. You're all wonderful and your words have meant so much to me. I'm going to be a little bit slow in responding, because these comments and messages were so wonderful (and I still can't believe that some of you took the time to leave me such long comments!) that a simple "thank you" won't be nearly enough as a response. I don't think words will be enough to express how much I appreciated everything, but I'm sure as heck going to try.
