For Good.

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, but my guess is at least 300,000 to 500,000 at least).

Nine stories (ten if you include "Deathly Silence!), a dozen or so plot arcs (one that runs from start to finish throughout the entire Saga), four different fanfiction sites and more characters than you can shake a stick at.

But now - now it's done. And I can concentrate on all the unwritten stories I have yet to write.

Won't that be fun?

My stories have character. Quite a lot of then, it appears

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 stories.

That way, if I need an Auror in TWS, I can look through all Auror characters, and pull one out (eg Miss Sally Jones).

But what I didn't realise is HOW MANY characters there are. And how many characters appear in some stories. Deathly Silence - one of the shortest and simplest stories - has 27 different characters in. So does Nineteen Years Later, which is only three chapters long. And Lost In Middle Earth has over 40!

I haven't even got to the Silent Trio series yet - I am somewhat scared!

All in all, it was quite an eye opener.