MetaFic

Since I don't have the time to develop it, nor was anyone looking for bad plot ideas, here's the light sketch I put together for an entry to the SIYE challenge. It's free for picking over or wholesale lifting, should it strike your creativity in just the right way . . .

The Triumphant Trio Vs Mary And Sue

Setting: Post-Voldemort era

Ron and Harry, during the summer after Year 7, are

The SIYE challenge for basically writing a bad story spawned a plot bunny, but I have so little bandwidth at the moment that there's no way I can write it. If anyone is interested in a bad-fic sketch with some really painful bits of humor, and has thick enough skin to pull it off in the face of the inevitable reviews, let me know.

Worst-case, I'll post the outline here if no one wants it. I blame Dave for pointing me to the SIYE site for this thing in the first place. I stopped reading there a while ago.

E29B is at beta stage 3/5. It was suggested a summary view might be "A kinder, gentler Harry" given the content of that half, but to really be a proper tease, those pesky answers (caveats and limitations) continue. Even some of the Big Ones are in there. I wouldn't recommend eating a meal during this installment, for the record.

The Contract has some material written, but it's not in order (like anything in that story is?) that we want to publish it in. Either Dave or I need to write a couple of missing scenes at some point to get that rolling again. Time, time, time.

At user request, I have just installed a font-size changing control on the site to help those that need it.

On the top-left, just under the "search" box, is a header that says "Text Size". This is expandable. If you don't see a selection to increase/decrease/reset the font size, click on it, and you should get a drop-down list of choices. (Read the full blog entry for details.)

Some months prior, I posted a note about the amount of bandwidth this website took. The readership has expanded, naturally, and the hosted content is growing. As we can, we'll continue to broaden everything, too. So what has that done to our site profile?

The first half, a fully self-contained chapter for most authors, has moved into the next beta stage. Whew. Between real life (travel, plague, etc.) and plot entanglements, that took longer than expected. This component weighs in at 18+k words.

The second half should be in full beta this week.

Updates on stories and various evil bunnies that run rampant at times, for the curious.

It turns out that SIYE's back-end engine refuses (and I mean refuses) to let anyone edit my posted chapters. I can't. The admin's can't. The only editing possible is by manually manipulating the database behind the thing, from a shell prompt. Since I lack shell access, and only Dino can step in at this point, well . . . he's slammed with real life, and the four chapters at SIYE that are truncated can't be fixed. So I just re-posted Chapters 4, 7, 10, and 26 as "new" chapters for a temporary work-around.