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firethesound) wrote2014-08-13 10:21 am
firethesound) wrote2014-08-13 10:21 am
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Claiming my Tropes Fic!
Yay, reveals for Tropes are up! That means I can talk about my story! My trope was Time Travel. :D
Title: At the Crossroads There We’ll Meet
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: temporary character death, slight dominance during sex
Word Count: 25k
Summary: Potter keeps dying; Draco keeps saving him.
And I'm sure that some of you right now are going "Oh dear lord, firethesound wrote character death again." But this is temporary character death, because yay time travel! It's not even as angsty as I think it sounds. The opening scene is sad, which I thought was necessary for setting the tension for the rest of the story, but beyond that... well, I wasn't really interested in writing loads of angst and so I just sort of didn't. Plus, my giftee requested that it have a happy ending, so I tried to keep the overall tone a bit lighter to match up with that.
Writing this was a challenge just because I've been so writer's block-y lately. I kept starting things and then having them not work out, to the point where I started naming them like Borg. This was attempt Five of Five. (Of the other attempts, I tossed Three of Five entirely because it sucked, both One of Five and Four of Five are about half-written, and Two of Five was supposed to jump straight into the action but somehow I ended up with a 4k running joke about house-elves before I abandoned it, because I'm leery of inflicting my weird sense of humor on people I don't know well. I'm sure I'll finish them eventually. Especially the house-elf one because I really like it.)
Part of the problem I'd been having before is I was trying to write the sort of twisty-turny time travel plot I love reading, but it turns out that I sort of suck at writing. So for Five of Five, I thought I'd keep it relatively simple and be able to get through it in just 5-6k because I'd already gone past the deadline. I only missed the word count by about twenty thousand, but I think keeping it simple worked out well. I'm really really happy with how this story ended up. This was my first time writing time travel, and my first time writing Luna and I adore how she turned out. And I feel that I'm finally getting comfortable writing smut, because I rather like how that bit of it turned out as well.
So, yes. Thank you to everyone who read and commented. And to the mods for their unending patience with me being so late. <3
Title: At the Crossroads There We’ll Meet
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: temporary character death, slight dominance during sex
Word Count: 25k
Summary: Potter keeps dying; Draco keeps saving him.
And I'm sure that some of you right now are going "Oh dear lord, firethesound wrote character death again." But this is temporary character death, because yay time travel! It's not even as angsty as I think it sounds. The opening scene is sad, which I thought was necessary for setting the tension for the rest of the story, but beyond that... well, I wasn't really interested in writing loads of angst and so I just sort of didn't. Plus, my giftee requested that it have a happy ending, so I tried to keep the overall tone a bit lighter to match up with that.
Writing this was a challenge just because I've been so writer's block-y lately. I kept starting things and then having them not work out, to the point where I started naming them like Borg. This was attempt Five of Five. (Of the other attempts, I tossed Three of Five entirely because it sucked, both One of Five and Four of Five are about half-written, and Two of Five was supposed to jump straight into the action but somehow I ended up with a 4k running joke about house-elves before I abandoned it, because I'm leery of inflicting my weird sense of humor on people I don't know well. I'm sure I'll finish them eventually. Especially the house-elf one because I really like it.)
Part of the problem I'd been having before is I was trying to write the sort of twisty-turny time travel plot I love reading, but it turns out that I sort of suck at writing. So for Five of Five, I thought I'd keep it relatively simple and be able to get through it in just 5-6k because I'd already gone past the deadline. I only missed the word count by about twenty thousand, but I think keeping it simple worked out well. I'm really really happy with how this story ended up. This was my first time writing time travel, and my first time writing Luna and I adore how she turned out. And I feel that I'm finally getting comfortable writing smut, because I rather like how that bit of it turned out as well.
So, yes. Thank you to everyone who read and commented. And to the mods for their unending patience with me being so late. <3
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Lol, I want to know about the 4k running joke about house-elves. I really hope we get to see that one.
I am glad you liked how it turned out and yay, I am looking forward to reading the smut :D
I am really sorry I procrastinated until reveals to actually read it (or any of the others), but I have been procrastinating with *everything* lately. Ohhh, you have no idea how very much I feel your pain. I have been fighting my fan fair piece every step of the way :\ I hope you are feeling less block-y about things now :D
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I didn't know you're writing for fan fair!! ::excited::
House-elf thing will definitely be completed at some point. I like it too much to leave it alone.
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<3 <3 <3
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It was beautiful. I felt so inadequate commenting on it because I didn't even know how to explain just how much I loved this story in actual words. I feared I might end up typing something like 'I swear it was THIS big!' (and it was, it was really amazing!) I loved all your characters so much, I loved that it was only mildly angsty -- and the fact that you managed that, the way to took this premise that could have been heartbreaking, and managed to use Draco's witty point of view to tone that down, gah, you're a master! I am stunned. And ridiculously glad you missed the word count by A LOT, to be honest (because I loved every word of this) ♥
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Thank you. <3