She’d never given any thought to Puddifoot’s when she was in school; the boys who thought that she was a girl at all didn’t think that she was the sort of girl to take to Puddifoot’s - instead, they believed the stories that she was the sort of girl who’d kneel before them in dark corners in the castle, whilst their trousers were bunched around ( Read more... )

Dreams of Cold Fusion (Chapter the Second) has gone off to the betas.

The Unexpected Horcrux (Chapter the First) has been posted at FFA.

http://kokopelli.fanficauthors.net/The_Unexpected_Horcrux/Chapter_the_First.php

Waking up held that moment of dissonance between one reality and the next - which was doubly so when the witch waking up was an Apprentice Dreamweaver.  The room was dimly lit, which was helpful.  The clients were sitting in the next room, whether they’d been waiting there the whole time, or just happened to be sitting there when she’d finished, ( Read more... )

“Isn’t that something that I should have had some say in?” Harry asked irritably.

“A bit hard, Harry, I had to put you into a life-threatening situation to wake Lily up last night.  We need the knowledge that’s in her head - she knows how to destroy Horcruces,” I said, hoping that I wasn’t going to push him over the edge.

“Oh, well,” Harry ( Read more... )

Waking up held that moment of dissonance between one reality and the next - which was doubly so when the witch waking up was an Apprentice Dreamweaver.  The room was dimly lit, which was helpful.  The clients were sitting in the next room, whether they’d been waiting there the whole time, or just happened to be sitting there when she’d finished, ( Read more... )

Cold, biting cold - he’d forgotten how he’d ended up here, remembering faintly his relief that his friends were cleanly away, but that relief had been subsumed by the cold and the darkness.  He’d always wondered if the prophecy meant that he couldn’t be killed by anyone other than Voldemort.  Ron had joked about it once, saying that he should try ( Read more... )

Here's something I glommed from a post by Arabella at a SQ writing forum - I'm putting it here so I can find it again:

FernWithy is right. You have to learn treat writing as a serious commitment, just for yourself, and you have to learn to discipline yourself to just sit down and do it. This can be very difficult when you're all on your own and ( Read more... )

Something I ran across of interest:

http://gehayi.livejournal.com/259518.html#cutid1

The story itself is not all that remarkable, but as a summary indictment of a) the plot holes left gaping by JKR and b) the negligence and incompetence of Dumbledore in canon, it's a ( Read more... )

Cold, biting cold - he’d forgotten how he’d ended up here, remembering faintly his relief that his friends were cleanly away, but that relief had been subsumed by the cold and the darkness.  He’d always wondered if the prophecy meant that he couldn’t be killed by anyone other than Voldemort.  Ron had joked about it once, saying that he should try ( Read more... )

Last week was spent playing with my friends in the Government's COOP exercise (don't ask).

I betaed a number of chapters for various authors.

I still have a few odds and ends sitting in my in-box from Jeconais.

I'm not getting any writing of my own done, though, which I'm beginning to miss.

Ah well, there's always tomorrow.

Fics that I'm watching:

HP & ( Read more... )