FANFICTION WRITERS’ GUILD
SUMMER CHALLENGE 2006
HORCRUX

Rules and Regulations

The following rules and regulations provided for the Horcrux-themed Summer Challenge of 2006 is divided into three parts: Contest Rules, Theme Rules and Specific Contest Rules.

Contest Rules are the groundwork of the entire challenge.

FWG Contest Rules
FWG:C-I. ( Read more... )

Yes. I am still quite alive. School's just started again. Took me two weeks to get used to it again. This year we've got an extended schedule that's really drying me of my mental capabilities. In any case, here's what would probably be the first half of my next chapter. I hope to post the full chapter soon. Within this week, in fact. I've typed up ( Read more... )

Here is a timeline between Dumbledore's death and the prologue of my fic.

1996, May/June
--Dumbledore dies

1996, Summer
-- Harry goes to Godric's Hollow
-- Voldemort steps up the pace, begins to take the Wizengamot apart, striking at its most prominent members
-- Ministry declares State of Emergency. All ex-Aurors are called back, and the Aurors begin ( Read more... )

I'm done. Here is the unbeta'd copy. I'm also sending it to my beta, who will hopefully get back to me soon. The final draft will most likely be vastly different from this one. I love my grammar!beta. She's very good at catching even the smallest faults.

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Minerva looked up at the Headmaster with a frown. “ ( Read more... )

I was sick, am still sick, and will be recovering soon.

Here, I've posted the first part of the chapter, which is about 6,700 words long. I have about 4,000 more words to go. Wish me luck! I want to finish it by tomorrow!

This is part one of the chapter, 'Tis Midnight.

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Harry lay on the sticky wet ground and felt an eternity pass by before him. A thousand threads of thought pulsed from every ( Read more... )

I got my May SAT II results yesterday...

Math IIC -- 800
Chemistry -- 720
Literature -- 680

Total: 2200 exactly

*sigh* Math was good, but I was really hoping for better in the other two. I'm gonna take them over again in November--and hopefully score better next time. No, I'm pretty sure I will...^^

So. I took an SAT I practice test today and scored a ( Read more... )

You Are A Hornbeam Tree
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NEW OUTLINE! (major, major, major spoiler warning!)

Prologue -- An End, and A Beginning 
Chapter 01 -- The Past, and The Future 
Chapter 02 -- Suspicions 
Chapter 03 -- Fragment of a Soul (Parts I and II) 
Chapter 04 -- Drawing Out the Plans 
Chapter 05 -- And There Was Laughter 
Chapter 06 -- Those Burning Bones 
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Chapter 07 -- 'Tis Midnight 
Chapter 08 ( Read more... )

Chapter Six, Those Burning Bones (yes, chapter title change, again!) has been posted on FanFiction.Net!

Outline:

Scene 1 -- Minerva -- 3,800 words
Scene 2 -- Harry -- 4,300 words

Total words: 8,500 words

Yeah, I know. It's only got two scenes. Live with it. :P

~liath