MetaFic

Mornings had always been Harry’s favourite part of the day. No matter how controlled or scripted his life had been, he’d always taken the trouble to wake before the appointed time and today was no exception.

I've been back at work now for two weeks and in some ways it's been very difficult for me. Its been a long time since I've had to go into the same office day after day. The fact that there's a lot of work required to set up systems and such whilst trying to generate appointments and ultimately income.

can't use the old details so I'm now Cwedol.

talkative adj cwedol eloquent

Well, I have my new job and now I have a start date which is this coming Monday.

I've done bits and pieces of writing in my enforced holiday including working on 2 original pieces. I read part of one to some one and they liked it so I'm encouraged to continue.

I'm going to be commuting by train again so I'm looking at stuff I can read on my phone. Does anyone know how to convert documents into .prc files? Would make it easier to read them rather than uploading them to google docs to read from there.

Thanks

With such a title, this could be about our church, which doesn't have its own building so has to set up and take down every week, but it isn't.

Instead, it concerns my current writing project which is set in Anglo Saxon England. I didn't really appreciate how much work it would entail in bringing the wealth of information that is out there regarding the period (its set around 924 AD)into a story. It's also showed me just how much info I have stored in my head about the world in which Harry lives.

My wife has never read any of my fanfic, always asking why I don't write any original stuff. She tends to be a lone voice amongst those who are interested in what I write as everyone else wants to know when the next chapter of 12M or Sins will be. But now she's happy, because I'm working on an idea that has no links to Harry Potter.

Scouting around for something new to read I came across Ginny's Journey on SIYE.

I was surprised to find that the interaction between H&G after 48 chapters is minimal. I won't be continuing with the story because I didn't actually like it, but it got me thinking; how much H&G does the story have to have to find a place on the site?

.....again.

The better news is that I've made us of the time to write and more of Sins has been written. There are a couple of fair sized holes in the narrative but thankfully not in the plot. I realised that some of the chapters I've started on in the past had long sections where there was lots of tell and very little show. As I've discovered when talking to other writers, telling them to show rather than tell is easy (take a bow Kezza), but actually changing the tell to show is a bit harder.

..... my Internet ... again. Access is being provided by a neighbour who hasn't heard of encryption. My fire wall is on full alert :)

Our internet died on Friday and is only just back.

It wasn't a pleasant experince , especially when job hunting, but at least I got some more writing done.

I have finished the third chapter of Sins, at least as far as the narative goes. Its taken a year to write so I think it'll be a real mess. Only time will tell.