That’s how many hours I’ve gone without eating, so far. Aiming for 72, as that’s the length of fast the Hubby read about as being most helpful for cellular autophagy (where the good cells destroy the bad cells). This is the first time I’ve done an extended fast (I’ve done intermittent fasting for years), and… Continue reading 66
Category: Harry Potter
Beginnings
Occasionally, the Higher Power laughs at me. Well, said Higher Power could *always* be laughing at me; it’s just that sometimes Thon lets me know about it. Friday night and yesterday morning, I was toying with “Agent 009.75,” an HP/James Bond crossover in which Violet Jane Moneypenny is a third Evans sister who ends up… Continue reading Beginnings
The Art and Craft of Writing
I woke up thinking about writing, and I want to explore those thoughts on “paper,” even knowing that I’ve got a nasty cold and it and the various medications I’m taking for it may make these musings even more disjointed than they would’ve been otherwise. Writing is both an art and a craft; craft can… Continue reading The Art and Craft of Writing
Re-Reading Harry Potter
I’ve noted before that while writing fanfiction I try to stay as close to canon as I can, and that necessitates re-reading the books (or portions of the books) before and during the writing. I also make notes as I go, and these are some of my notes from the first Harry Potter book,… Continue reading Re-Reading Harry Potter
Ron Weasley
This is a reprint/expansion of the section on Ron Weasley in the Author’s Note to “Man of Iron, Child of Magic.” I do quote brief bits from “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (or Philosopher’s Stone, if you’re on a different side of the Pond than me – grin), but these are permitted under copyright… Continue reading Ron Weasley
A Moral Question
Early this morning, lying half-asleep in the dark before dawn, a question flitted across my mind: On the assumption that the Killing Curse works by stopping someone’s bodily functions (it leaves no observable cause of death; what else could it do?), and on the assumption that the soul leaves the body at death… In Harry… Continue reading A Moral Question
Ginny Weasley
Apparently, I’m on a Harry Potter roll lately… One thing about writing Harry Potter fanfiction, at least for me, is spending so much time going over things in the books (the only true canon; the movies are secondary canon; everything else is tertiary – all my opinion Ensuring too main and respiratory prescription prescribers, pertaining… Continue reading Ginny Weasley
The Wills of James and Lily Potter
While I was reading fanfic earlier, I came across another bothersome issue that frequently comes up in Harry Potter fics: the wills of James and Lily Potter. There are several things that fanfic writers often get wrong in conjunction with those wills, and I want to address a couple of them here. As always,… Continue reading The Wills of James and Lily Potter
Pressing Charges
Since Mom’s death, I’ve been reading a lot of fanfic – re-reading old favorites and discovering new ones, especially in the Harry Potter fandom. Recently, I was reading YATTFIF (yet another time travel fix-it fic) that shall remain nameless because no one likes being used as a teaching example, however good the story is otherwise,… Continue reading Pressing Charges
On Harry Potter Fanfiction
There are two big problems (at least for me) in writing Harry Potter fanfiction. First, the fandom is so … enduring (which is a polite way of saying it’s massively popular and also fairly old) that pretty much every idea in it has been done at least before if not to death. I’ve gotten around… Continue reading On Harry Potter Fanfiction
