tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39869308375657177232012-02-16T07:13:46.728ZA blog to tell you all about my various works of fanfiction and so forth.Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.comBlogger1061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-33040614636770706282010-08-08T01:11:00.002+01:002010-08-08T01:16:30.028+01:00

At 1am on the 8th of August, 2010, The Silent Trio Saga was completed. Finally - done for good. No more stories, no more plot arcs. Harry, Sally and Hermione, and all their friends, family and the rest, can walk off in to the sunset, pleased and proud of the job they've done.It's taken up 4 1/2 years of my life, and is the single biggest work I have ever done (I haven't done an exact word count,

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I have started posting the Web Serial of The 9th Floor over at http://angelholme.wordpress.com/, but don't get too over excited yet. There is only an introduction and a disclaimer, because so far I haven't actually got to the plotting stage.But hey - it's a start.

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So in about twelve days time, two new games come out for the XBox 360 - Lego Harry Potter and Naughty Bear. I will leave it to you to look up what these games are about (but if you can't figure out Lego Harry Potter, you really need to get out more) but there is a good chance that when they get delivered, my fiction writing might take a bit of a down turn.So between now and then, my plan is to

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So - the long awaited cross-over between The Western Sky and The White Rose has pretty much died a death. I can't figure out the last Act, so instead I am going in a different direction.Jack And The Beanstalk, Hansel and Gretal and Little Red Riding Hood - three bedtime stories featuring various characters from The Western Sky as they haven't been seen before (at least in The Silent Trio Saga or

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Over the past month or so I have failed to do two things, but managed to do one, so it comes out about level.I still haven't sorted out the formatting for Twilight Over Ingleside and The Princess' Husband - I think that is going to be put off until 14th of June, because that seems like a suitable day.I also kind of failed with The Red Curtains Trilogy. A story about the life and times of Albus

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The Red Curtains Trilogy is a series of stories in three arcs ("In The Beginning", "The Long Game" and "End Game", though the names are not final at the moment), that tell the life story of Albus Dumbledore, through his eyes, the eyes of a character named Selenes and through the eyes of Tom Riddle.However, it is also a cross-over with the world of Twin Peaks. (Though obviously only the spiritual

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-57301551271756796722010-04-20T22:28:00.005+01:002010-04-20T22:36:29.335+01:00

What's been going on? I'm glad you asked.The Princess Husband is complete, pending proof reading. It ran out to 108 pages, and was finished in 14 days. I am pretty proud of the way it has turned out, but it will be a while before it is posted because I have to figure out a formatting standard, then convert it. (Celtx doesn't save to HTML, only to PDF).The Wish is a new short story, all about

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Wow. Already reached 100 posts. Who knew? (Well - me obviously).Normally I would write a huge summary entry, but it is way past my bed time.Instead I will say I am up to page 8 of my 100 for Script Frenzy (which, for an hour, isn't bad) and I have only just reached the part where Lesley and Harry say goodbye. so I might end up going a tad over 100 pages.Meanwhile this might be the last post until

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So - I am coming to the conclusion that I actually need to plan out a plot for "Silver Linings". What is "Silver Linings" you ask? Well - I will tell you.It's a story I started a few days back, with just an idea in my head of the first chapter or so. It's set at the start of Harry's fifth year, except Harry and Hermione are dead (escaping Ministry custody after being pulled up on charges of

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Started posting a lot of stories to the new site (http://archiveofourown.org/users/angelholme), including some that can't be posted anywhere else.Which makes me happy.Plus I have another idea (I am just full of ideas!) that might be something I can write quickly. With ScriptFrenzy starting on the 1st, I don't want to start a new long term story before then, but this might be a quick write one. Or

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So - it turns out I am too used to writing TV shows now (The Western Sky, The 9th Floor, Gemini Software Inc) because even as I am writing it, Twilight Over Ingleside is forming up in to a series of short stories, rather than one long one.It could be that I can't think of one plot that would sustain the story, but I can think of a few shorter ones that could, but since it is done in script format

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I found the new site I was looking for. It seems to have very good rules about posting (no ludicrous story limits, like not writing about magic) and doesn't appear to require beta readers or validation (which makes me happy) and has an apparently open policy about fandoms (you can define your own, but Green Gables and Charmed already exist, which is nice).I am going to stay at HP Fandom (http://

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Twlight Over Ingleside is now well under way. I am up to Page 24, and have done a fair part of the back story.Of course, it does mean I now have to work out the rest of the plot, which I have no idea about at the moment.

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So - pretty much everything is on hold until at most April 30th.All the posted stories are marked Complete (yay!), except for the three that are on-going stories (Max Boyce, Smartest Witch and Music Appreciation).The Western Sky Series 3 is being written, but is now on hold until after Script Frenzy. The same for A New Dawn : Enemies and Nineteen Years Later (version 2.0).I have also started

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-26032344450954360152010-02-22T18:55:00.002Z2010-02-22T18:57:17.593Z

Edward isn't turned until 1918.But what if Edward was not the first person Carlisle turned? What if there was someone else he never spoke about? Someone who would've died on the fields of Flanders if Carlisle hadn't intervened...."Twilight over Ingleside" - coming soon?(Probably not - I am not certain I can come up with a suitable plot, but hey - you never know).

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Due to a move to Windows 7 I'm going to delay the next chapter of Western Sky II - until Saturday Sorry for any problems but these things happen sometimes.On a related note - Windows 7 is a work of wonder :)

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So according to the two sets of statistics, not a lot of people have read past the first chapter of "The 9th Floor". Which means my experiment in HP stories without Big Bads in them has come to an end.I kind of liked it, but I'm not sure I can be bothered doing a lot more if no one wants to read it. Which, I know, isn't like me - normally I write for me and then stick it on the web cause I might

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So - Series 2 of The Western Sky is complete, and I am in the process of proofing it and posting it. "Respect For Your Elders" (Episode 2x09) is up, and tomorrow I am going to move on to Episode 2x10 ("Hallie Potter, At Your Service").In addition, I have posted a complete story (more or less) called "The 9th Floor". This is another tv show type story, but rather than having big dramatic fights

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I finally fixed the problem with Episode 2x05 of The Western Sky ("Shadows Of The Past") and have posted it, along with 2x06 ("The Games We Play, Part 1") on the HP Fandom Site (see the right of this page to find the link, since I can't remember it off the top of my head).It has yet to be updated on ForeverFandom because that site is currently down, and I don't know when it will be back up.In

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Hi.I am posting this way in the future to keep it at the top of the page. To find recent posts, please scroll down.The main purpose for this is to tell you all my HP stories can now be found athttp://www.hpfandom.net/eff/viewuser.php?uid=4145and all my other stories (along with most of the HP ones) can be found athttp://www.foreverfandom.net/viewuser.php?uid=32408 (however this does not include

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Lucius Malfoy looked down the length of Diagon Alley, and smiled.While the weekly Devotion Meetings were always very fulfilling, this one marked the fourteenth anniversary of the end of the war, and The Unity Squads had been out far more often to ensure they got maximum attendance.From what he could see, they'd done their job very well - The Alley was packed, with hundreds of people carrying

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Apparently HPFandom has been temporarily shut down due to.... I think it is overuse of the CPU on a shared server, but it's not entirely clear at the moment.I am going to wait to see what happens, but possibly look for other sites as well. (I have felt in a bit of a minority on HPFandom since it is so obviously a slash-site, even if there are a few non-slash stories there).Watch this space, I

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I am not a professional writer, and probably never will be.But I am quite proud of what I've written, and if I thought anyone else was claiming credit for it, I would be more than a bit ticked off.(Note - yes, I quote a lot in what I do. But as far as I know I have never written something I took from someone else and claimed it as my own. I always provide sources for what I quote, unless it is

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-56542425323239570302009-10-14T14:10:00.001+01:002009-10-14T14:11:17.142+01:00

So - The 9th Floor seems to be turning in to HP:TNG.Which could be good, I suppose.....

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Emily and Lucy Brown work a lot better.

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You can't just shove in four characters for one act then never use them again. It's stupid, and people are going to notice.So - how about we change E&B for a new Ambassador? Maybe Emily Brown... That might work?

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I finished posting Sidious to the twin sites about three minutes ago.Which gives me a happy.

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So - I think I may - FINALLY - have figured out how to write a political drama set in the world of Harry Potter.My original plan was to base it on the aftermath of "Dark Lord Sidious", but since I killed almost all of the main characters during that story, there was no one left with whom the readers would be familiar enough to make a suitable story.Instead, I am going to just write it set in a

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-62122568734393954292009-10-05T23:42:00.004+01:002009-10-05T23:49:52.696+01:00

Yes folks - the long awaited sequel to "Lost In Middle Earth" is here. An epic story spanning generations, a story of love and loss, of drama and comedy, of passion and parody. xoxoxHarry Potter and Sally-Anne Perks, now a newly married couple, had decided to take their honeymoon in Washington.As they drove along the main street, Harry caught sight of a young couple walking along the sidewalk. He

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-39711776140526359682009-09-26T02:07:00.003+01:002009-09-26T02:14:51.905+01:00

That's right - The main story line of "Harry Potter and The Dark Lord Sidious" is now complete. I finished the epilogue around twenty minutes ago, then edited it and finished it again about five minutes ago (it's better than it was - the ending lacked something originally!)There are seven more "story arc" chapters to post (including the epilogue), and then three chapters after that - Snape's

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The next chapter of Sidious has been posted, but only to ForeverFandom, as HPFandom is still down (le sigh!).In addition, I am pretty sure I am about to start the final chapter (of the main story arc), after which there'll be two epilogues (it will make sense when you read them) and a notes chapter (mostly answering questions asked in reviews).I am pretty happy with the way it has gone, but I

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So apparently HPFandom dot net is currently not accepting new stories, due to transferring to a new hosting plan (I'm guessing either a new ISP or the like?)So new updates to Sidious are going to be unavoidably delayed until further notice. However, if you do want to keep reading it, I am going to continue updating ForeverFandon dot net, and then - once HPFandom comes back up I will post all the

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After spending most of last night playing Blue Dragon, I felt a little guilty about my lack of progress with Sidious.So today you get two chapters for the price of one! (Well - for the price of none technically. Charging for fanfiction is baaaaad!)The other reason is that the most recent chapter ("Letters To America", the title of which will be explained at some point) ended up being about twice

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I got a tad distracted playing Blue Dragon over the past two days, so there might be a day or so delay in the next chapter of Sidious. But I am about half-way through year 3, so it's going pretty well ;) Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

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I am spending the weekend with my beloved, so there probably won't be any updates to Sidious until midweek. In the meantime - I would like to sing you a song. But since I can't post voice recordings, I guess I will just wave..... Damnit! Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

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The first of the 'revenge' chapters is up - it turns out I am breaking the story in to two different parts. The first is Harry carrying out his plan to change the past, and the second is his budding romance. And if you had told me six months ago I would actually be writing a love story (albeit a love story with quite a lot of horrible, bloody deaths in it), I might have thought you were mad :)

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-15561136356801700302009-08-18T23:12:00.002+01:002009-08-18T23:21:39.358+01:00

Generally when I plan to write stories, I write the plots out in Narrative form. That is I tell a summary of the story from start to finish, without regard to chapters.Consequently, when I actually start writing, there is a lot of "filler" to write. Not random stuff that has no relevance, but expanding of the narrative plot.For example the narrative plot might read "Hermione talks to Harry about

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-11819545903052977292009-08-18T00:21:00.001+01:002009-08-18T00:23:05.489+01:00

Annoyingly, I have figured out the best way to write "Break Of Day" - but it involves setting it sixty years in the future, and having almost no HP characters in it.So, whether I'll get it started or written, I don't know, because only one of the two sites permits original HP fiction..... So I guess we'll see.

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Woohoo! I have posted the Prologue and First Chapter of Sidious on the two main sites. I even contemplated breaking my near 17 month boycott of Fanfiction.net, but in the end I decided that after the events of M22-08 are still annoying, and even though I use "xoxox" rather than "-----", there is still the chance they'll remove that variation as well, and my scenes will start to merge again.Anyway

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I have finally started HP and The Dark Lord Sidious, and the first chapter was a bit of a bugger. But now I've got in to the main plot, it is going slightly easier.I suspect - when I get to posting it (see later) it might confuse people at the start. But to be honest, that is kind of the idea.My plan for posting is to do the first two chapters, then post the prologue and chapter one, so I'll

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"There was a teacher had a school, and Albus was his name-oh.A.L.B.U.S.A.L.B.U.S.A.L.B.U.S.And Albus was his name-oh"

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http://www.outpost-daria.com/fanfic_series_turnabout_confusion.htmlThis is very good, and worth reading. It helps to know something about the Daria-verse, but I'm pretty sure you can pick it up as you go along if you don't.

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The second part of the "A New Dawn Trilogy" is now complete. Although I guess since there is a prequel ("A Summer's Story"), at least one sequel ("The Holiday From Hell") and another one planned ("Return To Willamette") I suspect that calling it a trilogy is probably a bit of a misnomer. (Though there were two Star Wars trilogies, so if I can write the third part of The Hands of Blue story line,

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I have started posting Starlight - The Movie. And since it only has three chapters, it shouldn't take me that long (however the next chapter requires formatting, and it took me about an hour or so to do one tonight, so don't expect the next one before the weekend).However it is only up at one site, because the other one does not permit stories like "Starlight", so I can't post it there.(

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My attempts to write a political allegory (if that's the word I am looking for) about a politician named Nicola and her rise to power as part of the British Muggle Party aren't going as well as I'd hoped.The basic idea is that about two, three years after the magical secret comes out, Nicola Grafton (who revealed the secret originally) uses fear of magic and mages to gain a massive majority in

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-75085695017429809122009-05-19T21:41:00.002+01:002009-05-19T21:46:59.998+01:00

So instead of continuing The New Dawn trilogy, or typing up "Holiday From Hell" and "Starlight", spent the last week writing a cross-over between Harry Potter and Jane and The Dragon, and am now plotting out a "do-over story" (Harry comes back to rewrite the past).I really need to get more organized with this. Or just stop coming up with ideas.(The Jane and the Dragon crossover was just something

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-87913868815103187342009-04-29T18:58:00.003+01:002009-04-29T19:04:00.633+01:00

The Holiday From Hell came in at 192 pages (which was more than I thought), but then in a stunning display of script writing, Starlight (The Movie) came in at 100 pages exactly.So - go me. Two scripts in 29 days, with a total of 292 pages of glory.I realise I am very bad to blow my own trumpet, but I am very, very proud of myself for this.They'll be posted as soon as I can work out an easy way of

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-59357910446210042662009-04-04T02:11:00.002+01:002009-04-04T02:26:45.125+01:00

So - I am about half way through at the end of Day Three. Which is pretty typical for me, and apparently for most people.Writing an A4 page full of text is a lot harder than writing an A4 script page, because there is generally far less text.Which would explain why I am about half way through.The two major problems I have are that the "major scenes" (of which there are 23) should be four/five

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-24235097537517119912009-03-27T23:24:00.004Z2009-03-27T23:39:26.749Z

Well - I actually managed it. The first three chapters are posted on both sites, and I am quite happy with them.But now the story is on hiatus until at least April 30th (end of ScriptFrenzy '09), because while I am fairly confident I can write the screenplay in April, I am not so confident I can do it and continue "A New Dawn" at the same time :)So - by May 1st, I should have "Harry Potter and

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-50578019486117102492009-03-21T01:24:00.003Z2009-03-21T01:32:05.079Z

So - ScriptFrenzy 2009 starts in 10 days time. I didn't enter last year, because the year before......Well - I wrote a story about a young girl who grows up to be a doctor and a terrorist, then about four days after I finished it, a number of members of the medical profession were arrested on suspicions of being terrorists (after trying to blow up Glasgow Airport).So - I decided to skip a year,

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-88909934105154568052009-03-02T01:13:00.002Z2009-03-02T01:19:26.688Z

Yay! Part One of the "A New Dawn" Trilogy is finished. It needs proofing and posting, but it's complete.And aside from ONE HUGE GINOURMUS MASSIVE plot change (that took me completely by surprise when I wrote it), it pretty much went the way I wanted. Which is always good.The OHGMPC has necessitated replotting the next two stories, but only a little. But, looking back over the rest of the story,

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-20801332778597369362009-01-23T13:31:00.002Z2009-01-23T13:47:16.175Z

So - due to The Western Sky causing me major problems ("Shadows Of The Past" might have to be turned in to a two parter due to length) and Nineteen Years Later being on hiatus, I have started a new series.The Monks of The Order of Dagon send The Key to Harry, rather than to Buffy, and - at the end of his fourth year - Harry gets a sister who is a year younger than he is. Of course, he doesn't

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-86584596904187509332008-12-17T01:31:00.004Z2008-12-17T02:00:23.263Z

So - the writers at bobmin.fanficauthors.net are very good. Sunset over Britain is a truly inspired story, and while Sunrise was far too long, a bit dull and nowhere near as good, that doesn't mean Sunset was bad.But in their author's notes (which, by the way, since there are two of them should have the apostrophe after the s in Authors and not before it - the notes are from both authors, not

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-22474390435153847582008-12-14T12:13:00.002Z2008-12-14T12:16:59.680Z

So - it seems I just can not remember what the plot of NYL should be. I've got the 19 Years Plotted out (generally death on a large scale, plus a few babies and weddings), but as for what happens after the 19 Years are up - I really have no idea.So for the moment I'm putting it on Hiatus. It's not completely abandoned, but until I can work out some idea of what should be going on, I really can't

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-39413637708032078982008-12-08T14:43:00.002Z2008-12-08T14:57:19.567Z

Given how much I screw with canon (HP canon in particular), I really don't have any explanation for why certain HP/Buffy (or HP/Charmed) (or Buffy/Charmed) crossovers drive me up the wall, but they really do.The ones where the author of the crossover doesn't seem to understand that Buffy and Harry are the same age. Or that the Halliwell sisters are about ten to fifteen years older than Harry and

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-57436066474905844462008-12-08T13:55:00.002Z2008-12-08T14:05:32.792Z

So - now that the fun and frolics of NaNo2008 are done with, I am sorting out the rest of the stories.Firstly - Now and Then has been posted on both sites in its entirety. There were a few modifications from the original text (mostly spelling and grammar, but a few minor changes to the way things were phrased), and overall it was what I first wrote during NaNo.Second - The Darkest Dawn is being

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-41940802123181691412008-11-30T00:51:00.002Z2008-11-30T00:57:32.039Z

That's right. At 10:31pm on the 29th of November, I finished "Now and Then", a story about a girl keeping a promise.The story is 81,556 words long, and totals twenty chapters of fun and frolics (and, admittedly torture, genocide and murder, which is less fun and frolicsome. Unless you're a Dark Lord).Hopefully it will be published soon, but since I have been writing (more or less) non-stop for 29

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-46386977212260394792008-11-02T11:50:00.005Z2008-11-02T11:57:24.294Z

So - depending on your perspective, I either wrote around 4,261 words or approx 8,800 words.Why? Well - the site I was using to write the story has a very annoying and unusual feature. If you are merrily typing away, then click in the "Load File" box by accident, it freezes the text you have. And if you save it, it ignores it.So, at various points yesterday, I ended up typing the entire chapter

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-28473299069361888142008-10-31T23:02:00.001Z2008-10-31T23:03:55.608Z

Hermione Granger was sent to Azkaban for the attempted murder of her best friend.And now, seven years later, she's been released, and intends to finish the job.

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-9224791788069015582008-10-29T23:25:00.002Z2008-10-29T23:29:31.110Z

Since coming back from my site-visit, I haven't done a great deal, either on Darkest Dawn or Western Sky. A little on MIB, but I think that - come the weekend, I am going to try to finish Darkest Dawn (I have the events of the final battle written, just not the chapter) and then get back to Western Sky, because I really should get that going again.But now I am having ideas about NaNo - just

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-88012960084181509332008-10-16T20:06:00.001+01:002008-10-16T20:06:30.735+01:00

I live around forty miles from where I work. As a consequence, I spend a fair amount of time driving (depending on traffic, it can be anywhere from 40 minutes to an hour, and sometimes up to two hours if there is serious, major traffic).And while I drive, I generally listen to audio books, the radio or (since May) I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (which if you haven't listened to it, you really should.

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-26048746454548556252008-10-16T00:14:00.000+01:002008-10-16T00:16:28.811+01:00

The reason The Darkest Dawn is taking so damn long is the final two chapters - I am really, really bad at writing fight scenes, and since the story culminates with a huge battle, that poses a problem for me.Anyway - that's the reason TWS has been delayed, and why TDD has also been delayed. Because I am trying to write about six or seven different fights, and not doing it all that well.Which kinda

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-78205526788157592682008-09-20T02:12:00.002+01:002008-09-20T02:22:14.063+01:00

So - I have reached one of the pivotal chapters of The Darkest Dawn - that explains how the whole thing came about. I am about half way through it, and I think I know how it the rest will go (well - I know how the rest will go, but how it will fall out on paper, so to speak).So far, there has been a lot of Harry Potter back story and almost now Buffy, but that is because up until Hogwarts Year 6,

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-37610397671791339382008-09-13T23:25:00.002+01:002008-09-13T23:29:24.791+01:00

So - I started on 2x05, and managed to write nearly 3,000 words, and still didn't get anywhere near the end of the first act.Which is kind of annoying, as I want all the acts to be around 2,200 to 2,500 words at most (otherwise they get very long, and since it is supposed to only be a 45 minute show, I can't be writing hours and hours of stuff).So - I scrapped it, and plan to start again at some

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-29300323787386573722008-09-09T23:22:00.002+01:002008-09-09T23:25:28.272+01:00

Finally! Series 2 of The Western Sky has made it on to the web. I thought I would do it tonight, just in case the world does, in fact, end tomorrow (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7604293.stm).It is posted to ForeverFandom and HPFandom (see links on the side of the blog for the two sites), and should be followed by Silent Night some time next week (or a little later).So, all in all, life is

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-37097007950685215812008-09-09T00:39:00.003+01:002008-09-09T00:47:07.903+01:00

I swear this thing changes my password at random. It seems every time I come to write a new post, it doesn't reconigse the password I give it, and have to get it reset.Anyway.Finally - after much postponing - I have finished 2x04 ("A New Beginning"). I admit I changed the title, and the end of the episode a little, and that it is around 1000 words longer than I would like, but the only bits I

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-16634007124724572592008-09-03T01:06:00.002+01:002008-09-03T01:08:31.483+01:00

The one night I plan to do nothing but write, and I have to bring work home with me.So - 2x04 (and 2x01) is postponed for at least a night. And with "Lost In Austen" (not one of my stories for once) on tomorrow night (9pm ITV - it seems fun) along with the need to shop for food and the like, there is the chance things might be postponed until Thursday.I guess we shall see.

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-12943996811170313742008-09-02T01:14:00.002+01:002008-09-02T01:17:11.398+01:00

The Western Sky, Series 2, is nearly ready for its debut.I have one act left of 2x04 (The New Girl), and then I will be willing to post 2x01 (When Tomorrow Comes, Part 2) - which will bring a conclusion to the cliffhanger from the end of last series.Hopefully, I can do it tomorrow night (I am taking a break from character processing for the moment - it is dull and driving me insane), so it will (

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-10064319739526876492008-09-02T01:03:00.004+01:002008-09-02T01:14:24.061+01:00

I have spent the past three nights collating all the characters in the various fanfictions I have written. The main reason for this is that I think I am starting to reuse names, without realising it.So I used the local fiction site I set up (using eFic on my computer upstairs), I have created lists of characters for each fandom (Harry Potter, Charmed, Buffy etc), and started assigning them to

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-74924705933105630392008-08-11T00:33:00.003+01:002008-08-11T00:37:48.286+01:00

The rest of Series 2 has been plotted out. My biggest problem has been that the arcs I wrote were two sentence summaries, and it turns out expanding them in to bigger plots was more of a task than I thought.However - there are now thirteen plots ready to be written, and while I have introduced a few new plot arcs than I thought, but I think it has all turned out as I wanted.So - hopefully I can

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-121719947719448452008-08-05T20:56:00.002+01:002008-08-05T21:17:32.682+01:00

Well - Series 2 is going (kind of) well. I have completed the first episode (but given that I have been planning that for a long while, it was pretty easy), and I have a number of episodes plotted out. Of the fourteen in the series, I am missing 2x06 and 2x07 (Foundations), 2x09 and 2x11 (although 2x08 and 2x10 are both plotted), and then the finale episodes (the last three episodes are a single

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-62019194829463303282008-07-24T00:09:00.002+01:002008-07-24T00:23:31.897+01:00

So - after six weeks of plotting, drafting and writing some parts of it already, I think The Western Sky Series 2 is more or less ready for debut.It will be a fourteen episode series, picking up a week or so after Series 1 left off.Although the arc for the series is planned out, and the plots for each episode is sketched, I have only actually fully plotted out the first episode (2x01 - When

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-13661437977576781052008-07-12T23:47:00.002+01:002008-07-12T23:50:39.858+01:00

I have finished copying The Silent Trio series across to the new site (Forever Fandom) - all six parts copied in just over a month.Which is nice.The Western Sky is next to be copied, then I think I will start Series 2. (I also have LIH to do, but I think that will wait until later in July, and in to August).TST seems to have been received well, by at least one person, if not anyone else :)

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-24545446531726022822008-06-30T23:08:00.002+01:002008-06-30T23:18:53.335+01:00

http://www.ficwad.com is the new site I have started posting to. So far "Lost In Middle Earth" is the main story, along with Gemini Software (http://www.ficwad.com/story/100403) and The Archive (http://www.ficwad.com/story/100467), but there is something that confuses me.The character list has a character named Malcolm Baddock (http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Malcolm_Baddock), who, as far as I

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-79857883845889519072008-06-23T23:04:00.003+01:002008-06-23T23:08:37.357+01:00

I have started posting some of my original stories at http://www.ficwad.com/author/69837. This is mostly in an attempt to get away from FictionPress.com - a site that is run by the same ass-hats who administrate FanFic.net, but also an attempt to spread the original fiction to more people.But I am also posting one or two HP stories there - the ones I think people will like. And Lost In Middle

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-28179971850029375612008-06-20T12:28:00.003+01:002008-06-20T12:31:55.262+01:00

At last I can say Episode 1x14 (When Tomorrow Comes) - the finale of The Western Sky Series 1 - is now posted at HPFandom and ready to read.It's been delayed by two weeks, but quite honestly I am impressed that the site-admins at HPFandom managed to get everything fixed in that time, as it seems whatever was wrong was pretty damn chaotic.So - big cheers to the site-admins.But, as important as

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-43773220020845576222008-06-19T23:27:00.002+01:002008-06-19T23:28:40.419+01:00

The site is almost completely down, for various reasons beyond my comprehension.So don't expect any updates any time soon.

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-12934551279990377772008-06-14T11:15:00.002+01:002008-06-14T11:21:38.815+01:00

The annoying thing is I am really quite proud of the last episode of Series 1, and quite looking forward to what people will make of it. It came out pretty much as I wanted, and with just the right amount of cliff-hangerness (which I realise isn't a word, but eh - it's my blog).As I said in a previous entry, I am transferring The Silent Trio across to a new site, and it should take me another

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-46502216207280876222008-06-11T21:28:00.002+01:002008-06-11T21:36:48.144+01:00

HPFandom is still locked down, due to something about viruses and so forth. So Western Sky is still on hiatus, until further notice.Once the site is back, I will let you know, and you can enjoy the finale.(In the meantime, I am going to start working out the chapter structure for LIH)

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-52435051066521867762008-06-09T01:12:00.002+01:002008-06-09T01:15:42.284+01:00

So I spend most of the night finishing Episode 1x14, and proof-reading it, to ensure it is posted before my sweetie comes home, and what do I find? HPFandom is shut down due to virus scares, and is not accepting new posts for the near future!!!Sometimes, I wonder why I bother :)But 1x14 (When Tomorrow Comes) is now finished and complete, and it came out EXACTLY the way I wanted it, which is very

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-18364201575104097072008-06-08T16:41:00.002+01:002008-06-08T16:55:26.076+01:00

I have started copying my "magnificent octopus" across to a new site. It was originally on two sites - http://www.hpfandom.net/eff/viewuser.php?uid=4145 and the festering evil that is ff.net. However in the week following the M22 Virus (as I am going to call it from now on), the first four Silent Trio stories were mutilated, and the first four chapters of the fifth.On a side note - the reason it

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-61970570823663830272008-06-01T19:02:00.003+01:002008-06-01T19:06:11.615+01:00

So, after nearly six weeks, I have managed to write the next two chapters of Western Sky.The main reason for the delay was that 1x12 (originally "Invasion", now "Twenty Five Years Later") was a complete disaster, and took about a month on its own to sort out. The original plot has been scrapped, and a whole new one put in its place.Even after it was written, I thought I should post the second

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-81145996301894396222008-03-30T03:40:00.002+01:002008-03-30T03:43:57.449+01:00

It's now 3:39am, although really it's only 2:39am (British Summer Time, don't you know?)And the week of hell is over. The M22 debacle is now behind me, and at least two people have followed me over to the new site. Which is nice of them.I wonder if I could set up a mailing list? Maybe I'll think about it, but for now (well - for tomorrow) I am going to start on 1x11 (the second part of the Back

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-16314098957059442962008-03-29T12:51:00.002Z2008-03-29T12:57:32.738Z

I have now purged ten stories from the ff.net site, and marked 19YL and TWS as complete, even though it is patently obvious they're not.And I feel bad about this. Not because of the purging and departing the site thing, but because of the reasons for it.A few years back (2000/2001) I deleted all my stories and set up my own site because of a rule change - FF.Net banned song lyrics, which was just

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-63605819087572340332008-03-29T01:26:00.001Z2008-03-29T01:28:34.141Z

Given that a large number of people before have complained, and heard nothing from the support staff, I hold out little hope they will reply before the deadline expires.And once mid-day comes by - that will be it.I am kind of holding out hope that they will do something, but it's not a lot of hope.

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-42603374273221441932008-03-28T22:08:00.002Z2008-03-28T22:26:42.791Z

Ok - so someone in the forums posted a question - "What is wrong with custom scene breaks anyway?"Which is a really good question, if you stop and think about it. What is wrong with people using dashes, xoxox, -oOo- and so forth?Well - I had an idea about it, and it is somewhat conspiracy theory ish, but eh - this is my blog so what are you going to do about it (grin)?They just introduced a

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-45057530937791032922008-03-28T00:55:00.001Z2008-03-28T00:56:40.707Z

Having read a few comments in a forum, it turns out it is not just me that is pissed off.There are, it appears, discussions about boycotting ff.net completely, with everyone who this has affected moving to another site.This has been a turbulent 24 hours, hasn't it?

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-66177853488238119772008-03-28T00:02:00.003Z2008-03-28T00:11:53.433Z

I have already made my choice. It is now up to the site admins to see whether I implement it or not.I have written a "final chapter" for The Western Sky, explaining why the story is being suspended on Fanfic.Net, and, come Saturday/Sunday - if there is no response from the site admins, I will post it, and that will be that. I will download the stories I don't have copies of, and then remove them

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-1115142463057225232008-03-27T10:14:00.002Z2008-03-27T10:20:16.154Z

We do not support dash or other character based section/scene markersDoes this mean that all the stories where I have used "xoxox" to break up scenes are going to be modified as well?Because that accounts for all the chapters I didn't mention in the previous post (Exum, Coming Storm, Lost In Middle Earth, Deadly Silence, Nineteen Years Later, Western Sky etc). And I am damn sure I am not

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March 22nd, 2008 -- Summary of upgrades/notes since the last update:We do not support dash or other character based section/scene markers. If you wish to create a separation in your chapter, please use the officially supported horizontal line feature in our document editor or in your favorite word program. Using unsupported section markers will only make your entries less compatible to future

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-1014900447119299782008-03-21T21:02:00.002Z2008-03-21T21:11:31.086Z

Easter Weekend is kind of nice, since it leads to four days holiday (for me at least. My pookie alas doesn't get the time off), and has given me time to not only complete (and post) 1x09 of TWS, but also type up all that I wrote for Lost In Hyrule while I was away last weekend. And it turns out it was way, way more than I thought - 30 1/2 pages of A4 (prologue plus three chapters).They are all

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Nearly 24 hours after they were finished, the two new episodes are finally posted.And I realise I say this a lot, but I think I am going to try to get back to a regular posting schedule now. Maybe write two or three nights per week (starting next week, since I am away for the coming weekend), and update on a given day. It might get complicated, especially if I am going to finish Lost In Hyrule by

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I was all ready to post the story at lunch time, but I managed to leave the memory stick plugged in to the computer at home.So it will have to wait for tonight.(Growl)

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Episodes 1x07 and 1x08 are done, and the third act of 1x08 came out exactly as I wanted it. I know it is somewhat arrogant to blow my own trumpet, but it really is quite good :) Even the ending, which frustrated me for a good while, turned out pretty well.And 1x08 contains another teaser trailer for Lost In Hyrule (Which I think now is just a working title). And given that I am going away this

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A picture of Harry, dressed in a green tunic, riding Buckbeak across an open field. A picture of Ginny and Sally, both dressed in armour, sword-fighting in a city. A picture of several Gryffindor students, also dressed in green, fleeing through a forest, pursued by a giant shadow. A picture of Ron and Harry hugging. A picture of Ginny throwing her head back in laughter, as Harry and Sally look

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-3849113431080900672008-03-07T01:04:00.002Z2008-03-07T01:10:05.484Z

So - I finally got some more written. I have been spending the week trying to re-create a virtual rubik's cube (I did it a while back, and lost the code. Then I did it again, and lost the code. To give you some idea, this is version 4.0). I have almost got it completed, but I have completely forgotten how to solve the top side when you have two pieces that need swapping. I can do three, but not

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TWS and 19YL are not really going anywhere. Well - that's not true. They are going places, just not very quickly.And last night, as I was falling asleep, I had an idea about a new story, the next part to Lost In Middle Earth.Set in Ocarina of Time, it would have Harry and Hermione (again), or possibly Harry and Luna, staring as Link and Navi, with various other HP characters as members of the

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I had every intention of either writing the next two chapters of 19YL or the end of the current episode of Western Sky tonight. I was going to do it whilst I reinstalled XP on my computer (I have a laptop as well, remember?). However due to Nero being utterly crap and completely useless, I could not get a copy that would create a bootdisk for me, so I did not get to install XP. And because I

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I have been away for the weekend, and am going away tomorrow. As a result, there will be very little story writing done. I think I might have a go at the Historic part of Nineteen Years Later, but The Western Sky (1x07) will probably not be completed until Saturday, if not Sunday. It has only just started, and although I have an idea of what I am going to do with it, there are bits that are still

Sammy Wraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14206313773176850504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3986930837565717723.post-64242300458759928282008-02-10T00:40:00.000Z2008-02-10T00:48:07.200Z

The latest episode of The Western Sky is now ready for posting, but will not be posted until tomorrow, as it has one more round of validation to go through.But of all the episodes so far, I would say this is the one that has not only caused me most problems, but has also changed the most from the original plot. To the point where the original plot has been thrown out of the window, then set on

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