MetaFic

Competition Name: The Anniversary Challenge, 2008
Competition End Date: Wednesday 3rd September 2008

First Place

Author: Kezzabear
Story: An Unceremonious Beginning
Rating:
"This day sucks, it really does. It's the worst day ever." Harry is having a very bad day...

http://www.phoenixsong.net/fanfiction/story/5705/

Chapter 1 is now awaiting approval. I've decided for the time being to only post it here so this is a Metafic exclusive lol

I was asked whether the title is supposed to be singular or plural. The answer is plural for reasons you will see as the story unfolds. All feedback is very welcome of course.

ETA: Ok the time being is past and I'm going to post it elsewhere :p

Its hard to find decent stuff on FF.net so a while ago I started a community to try and keep track of mainly the newer stuff. Being the narrow minded person I am I'm only interested in H&G and can easily cope with Ron and Hermione being with others.

Feel free to rec stuff and I will add it.

The community can be found here

http://www.fanfiction.net/community/Harry_and_Ginny_Potter/54906/99/0/1/

I gave a one star rating to a story on SIYE because I though it was rubbish and it was more polite to give it a start rating than actually say what i thought and got this response:

Author's Response: Thanks! I was hoping to find out there were some who really read the stories - It's great to REALLY know you can't make everyone happy!

The story is HP& the Affairs of State and won an award in a recent challenge. Why I have no idea, but then I've never won anything, even losing a H&G fic vote to a R/H slash story.

http://www.siye.co.uk/siye/viewstory.php?sid=128085

As some of you know I'm not a fan of the use of bushy-haired, brown-skinned etc to describe characters in the books. One of my pet peeves. I'll add Auror Academy or Auror program to that as well.

Normalcy is another lol moment for me even though I've enjoyed the fic of the same name. Drug instead of dragged, spit instead of spat are also moments of lol and *rolls eyes*

Oh yeah and 'fit perfectly together' is another. One because its a lazy phrase, and two because it should be fitted.

A drabble inspired by the talk of a bonded H&G who lean to the dark side. Terribly unbeta'd.

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If she gives me one more pitying look like that I will hex her into next week.

Word cannot express how much I hate that phrase. How demeaning it sounds, labelling your wife/husband/whatever with a piece of management speak. Authors who use it should be hung drawn and quartered....at the very least and should grovel for forgiveness as should their beta.

How much working away from home do you think goes on in the Wizarding world? So many fics have Harry away for days, nay, weeks at a time as an Auror and Ginny 'on the road' with The Harpies I begin to wonder if Apparition has been banned.

I know its a plot device to cause some angst, but there are better ways of ding it IMHO.

I've come across a new Au Gof fic on Fanfic.net.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4545504/1/Aspirations

Extended Summary: AU. When Ron and Hermione wrongly believe that Harry placed his name in the Goblet of Fire to enter the Triwizard Tournament, Harry appears to be truly isolated. Much to his relief, one person truly believes in him. She will be his inspiration to aspire to greatness, no matter what cost and far beyond what Dumbledore’s plans for his destiny would be. Eventual Dark!Harry/Dark!Ginny pairing, with Ron, Hermione, and Dumbledore bashing.

some of you are aware that I use speech recognition software in my writing. It began when I had to find a way of continuing to write reports at work even though, due to illness, my situation levels were poor. but it has carried on from there and I also use it when writing fiction. it works very well as a form of brainstorming. I can talk for five minutes or so and end up with 500 to 600 words which I can then work on, thus helping me to get ideas down on paper quickly.