TTK: Reloaded - the edit continues
Jul. 26th, 2009 09:25 pmI'm up to Chapter 42 of the edit, now. Just another 48 to go.
My, I, certainly, liked, my, commas, Back, In, The, Day, didn't, I?
It's quite a slow process - I've got the fic in a single .html file open in Firefox in one window, and the source file in vim (best text editor on the planet, bar none) in the other.
None of the story's changing - I have truncated a couple of scenes, and changed some of the dialogue. Trying, also, to get to grips with consistent capitalisation: Portkey, Apparate, House Points and so on.
Odd things strike me: I Sorted Seamus' little sister into Ravenclaw, but then have her hanging out in the Gryffindor Common Room... how come no-one mentioned that in their reviews (OK, there's like 50-odd chapters between mentions, but still...)?
I'd love to try and make Malfoy more in character (I think, of all the voicings, I'm furthest off with him, at least initially), but I just can't do that and still keep the plot the same. Same goes for some of the scenes - I thought about cutting the lakeside party for Hermione that the Twins throw, but you need that so that the betrayal bites harder later on.
It's amazing, to me, that the fic even remotely echoes its summary:
Well, we’re back after the GoF, and things have taken a turn for the darker. Sword fights, apocalyptic battles, new kinds of magic coming right at you! We’ve got love, betrayal, angst. Doing the right thing, doing the wrong thing, and doing it in style. A Muggle-style beach party by the lake, a Yule ball and the full Quidditch season! See Azkaban! See Fudge on a power trip! Debate where Snape’s loyalty really lies. See what really prompted Slytherin, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff to establish the school. This is dark - expect deaths, and a PG-13ish rating.
I wrote that hostage to fortune (apocalyptic battles! Modest, much?) *points up* after uploading the prologue and the first three chapters - all I had was a vague idea about where things were going, and then I discovered that the characters didn't agree at all with what I was asking them to do, and were intent on doing things their own way. Which was a large part of the fun.
The bad points? Apart from character death, wholesale-stylee, Harry ended up waaaaaaaaaay too powerful (even if it did all come at a cost), which had never really been the intention. I'd much rather the fic had been more Harry/Parvati than Harry/Cho... way too many skeletons (sorry Cedric) in the latter. OTOH, the Harry-Parvati interaction through the middle of the fic I quite like (particularly when they're at Blackrock).
My, I, certainly, liked, my, commas, Back, In, The, Day, didn't, I?
It's quite a slow process - I've got the fic in a single .html file open in Firefox in one window, and the source file in vim (best text editor on the planet, bar none) in the other.
None of the story's changing - I have truncated a couple of scenes, and changed some of the dialogue. Trying, also, to get to grips with consistent capitalisation: Portkey, Apparate, House Points and so on.
Odd things strike me: I Sorted Seamus' little sister into Ravenclaw, but then have her hanging out in the Gryffindor Common Room... how come no-one mentioned that in their reviews (OK, there's like 50-odd chapters between mentions, but still...)?
I'd love to try and make Malfoy more in character (I think, of all the voicings, I'm furthest off with him, at least initially), but I just can't do that and still keep the plot the same. Same goes for some of the scenes - I thought about cutting the lakeside party for Hermione that the Twins throw, but you need that so that the betrayal bites harder later on.
It's amazing, to me, that the fic even remotely echoes its summary:
Well, we’re back after the GoF, and things have taken a turn for the darker. Sword fights, apocalyptic battles, new kinds of magic coming right at you! We’ve got love, betrayal, angst. Doing the right thing, doing the wrong thing, and doing it in style. A Muggle-style beach party by the lake, a Yule ball and the full Quidditch season! See Azkaban! See Fudge on a power trip! Debate where Snape’s loyalty really lies. See what really prompted Slytherin, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff to establish the school. This is dark - expect deaths, and a PG-13ish rating.
I wrote that hostage to fortune (apocalyptic battles! Modest, much?) *points up* after uploading the prologue and the first three chapters - all I had was a vague idea about where things were going, and then I discovered that the characters didn't agree at all with what I was asking them to do, and were intent on doing things their own way. Which was a large part of the fun.
The bad points? Apart from character death, wholesale-stylee, Harry ended up waaaaaaaaaay too powerful (even if it did all come at a cost), which had never really been the intention. I'd much rather the fic had been more Harry/Parvati than Harry/Cho... way too many skeletons (sorry Cedric) in the latter. OTOH, the Harry-Parvati interaction through the middle of the fic I quite like (particularly when they're at Blackrock).
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