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A couple of weeks ago, I had the urge to read independent!Harry fanfics. For whatever reason, good old Dumbles/Weasley!bashing interested me.
However, despite browsing FFnet's 100k+ list of fanfics, I didn't find many long (very loooong) independent!Harry fics >_<
Would you believe this, I even read Harry/Hermione fics because I couldn't find any other interesting stories. I did draw the line at Harry/Ginny (can't stand that girl, way too much hero worshiping and James/Lily VS Harry/Ginny parallel. She (JKR) had him marry a carbon copy of his mother, for Merlin's sake! O.o) and Harry/Daphne, ../Susan and such (Mary Sue, hellooo!).
So yeah, I read those fics, browsed for hours, and didn't find many attractive plots.
So of course, I had to think about my own story. Well, it was more of a "what would I like to read about, what kind of independent!Harry would I like to see", and bang! Hello Plot Bunny!
I resisted for two weeks! I'm proud of myself. Then I had a slow afternoon at work today, and my word processor was calling to me, and I just thought that I might as well write down that damned outline, just to get it out of my head.
4'000 words later, I'm barely into third year of the outline, which isn't really an outline anymore, but more of a really condensed story, and that plot bunny developed itself to near epic proportions.
As a result, I might publish a new Harry Potter WIP someday. If I do, I probably won't bother with more than a cursory beta-reading, because I don't want to invest myself in another fic like I did with Guide.
Well, we'll see ;p
However, despite browsing FFnet's 100k+ list of fanfics, I didn't find many long (very loooong) independent!Harry fics >_<
Would you believe this, I even read Harry/Hermione fics because I couldn't find any other interesting stories. I did draw the line at Harry/Ginny (can't stand that girl, way too much hero worshiping and James/Lily VS Harry/Ginny parallel. She (JKR) had him marry a carbon copy of his mother, for Merlin's sake! O.o) and Harry/Daphne, ../Susan and such (Mary Sue, hellooo!).
So yeah, I read those fics, browsed for hours, and didn't find many attractive plots.
So of course, I had to think about my own story. Well, it was more of a "what would I like to read about, what kind of independent!Harry would I like to see", and bang! Hello Plot Bunny!
I resisted for two weeks! I'm proud of myself. Then I had a slow afternoon at work today, and my word processor was calling to me, and I just thought that I might as well write down that damned outline, just to get it out of my head.
4'000 words later, I'm barely into third year of the outline, which isn't really an outline anymore, but more of a really condensed story, and that plot bunny developed itself to near epic proportions.
As a result, I might publish a new Harry Potter WIP someday. If I do, I probably won't bother with more than a cursory beta-reading, because I don't want to invest myself in another fic like I did with Guide.
Well, we'll see ;p
