MetaFic

Ginny climbed up the boys’ staircase to the fourth-year dormitory and crept inside.  Lee, Fred, and George were all asleep with their curtains open.  She tiptoed to the side of Fred’s bed and knelt next to it.  “Fred,” she whispered, putting one hand on his shoulder.

His eyes opened, but she put her hand over his mouth before he could speak.  “I need to talk to you and George. Meet me downstairs?”

Since I periodically get pinged or PM'd for "is this abandoned?" type of queries, or "are you still alive?" issues . . . I thought I'd post a brief summary of status here.

The limiting factor in my writing -- as for most people -- is my free time. My work environment has done everything possible to remove the concept of free time, such that when coupled to my personal life I have about 1.5 hours per week "to myself" to do as I wish. That makes it hard to do anything at all with Echoes, and that's partly why I started little drabbles like The Contract or the other bunny trails.

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

An astute reader (Ichtys) noticed that I made a rather glaring error in Chapter 24. I had Dumbledore introduce Hagrid to the Grangers as though they had never met. They had indeed met, however, back in chapter 9 when Hagrid broke up the fistfight between Arthur and Lucius. Normally, I really don't like making substantive changes to a chapter after it's posted, but in this case I think it's called for.

Ginny woke from a light doze when George patted her shoulder.

“It’s almost dawn,” he whispered.  “Go on back to your dormitory, and meet us in the common room in an hour.”

She stared at her brother in confusion until she remembered why she was in his room.  Hermione had been Petrified.  It was her fault.  She was in the boys’ dormitory because she had been unable to face her own.

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.