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, maybe I can go back to calling it a normal trilogy. But I digress).
"A New Dawn : Allies" is finished, pending proof-reading and posting to the two main sites, and I am quite happy with it.
Quite what I'm going to do next, I'm not sure. I think "Enemies" will have to wait, at least for a little while. Not least because I am going on holiday in two weeks, and there will be no writing during that week or so.
Plus I kind of want to write "Dark Lord Sidious", or at least get it started. For example.....
Sirius Black was dead!
As Harry listened to Dumbledore explain The Prophecy, and how he was destined to be the saviour of wizard kind, only one thought went through his mind.
Sirius Black was dead!
As he turned and stalked out of the office, the same thought kept running through his head.
Sirius Black was dead!
And as he came face to face with Luna Lovegood, the thought continued to echo.
Sirius Black was dead! And he could not be happier about the situation.
(Yet again, I am reacting to whiny Post-OOTP stories about Harry being all depressed and turning in to a little, whiny bitch).
So - either "Dark Lord Sidious", "Return To Willamette" or another Harry/Jane story. I think "Enemies" is going to have to wait for the middle of August, or possibly September. But hey - that's only really six weeks away.
Showing posts with label Crossovers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crossovers. Show all posts
Monday, 13 July 2009
Friday, 23 January 2009
A New Dawn - a trilogy in four parts
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 realise that, because he remembers that Summer Dawn Potter has been a part of his life since she was born.
The story is in three parts, taking Harry in to his fifth year, and through his sixth, finishing in his seventh. The fourth part, however, is a prequel, which covers the major changes in Harry's life since Dawn came in to it (mostly that they now live with Sirius and his wife Emily, who have a daughter named Lily-Anne).
The Prequel is posted at both sites - I was going to leave it to the end, but there are a few key things that need some explanation. I wanted the fifth year to be a little confusing, but not so confusing that you can't understand it), and the first part is underway.
The four stories are called "A New Dawn : Summer's Story", "A New Dawn", "Allies" and "Enemies", and I am posting them one chapter behind - so I will have chance to modify things if necessary. (So at the moment Chapter 5 is written, but only Chapter 4 is posted). However all of the arcs are plotted out in their narrative form, which is the most I tend to do (I stopped chapterizing a while back, cause it never works out like I want!).
Anyway - A New Dawn.... coming to a website near you.... pretty much now.
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 realise that, because he remembers that Summer Dawn Potter has been a part of his life since she was born.
The story is in three parts, taking Harry in to his fifth year, and through his sixth, finishing in his seventh. The fourth part, however, is a prequel, which covers the major changes in Harry's life since Dawn came in to it (mostly that they now live with Sirius and his wife Emily, who have a daughter named Lily-Anne).
The Prequel is posted at both sites - I was going to leave it to the end, but there are a few key things that need some explanation. I wanted the fifth year to be a little confusing, but not so confusing that you can't understand it), and the first part is underway.
The four stories are called "A New Dawn : Summer's Story", "A New Dawn", "Allies" and "Enemies", and I am posting them one chapter behind - so I will have chance to modify things if necessary. (So at the moment Chapter 5 is written, but only Chapter 4 is posted). However all of the arcs are plotted out in their narrative form, which is the most I tend to do (I stopped chapterizing a while back, cause it never works out like I want!).
Anyway - A New Dawn.... coming to a website near you.... pretty much now.
Monday, 8 December 2008
Something I really have no explanation for.
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 Buffy.
An example of this type of story was one I started reading earlier : Harry Potter and The Key of Dagon.
Harry has just finished his fifth year, and yet somehow Sunnydale is already a lagoon. Meaning that the story (from Buffy's perspective) must be set after May 2003 (when Sunnydale was destroyed).
Which (if you can't do the maths yourself) would make Harry just two months shy of being 23.
Or - just to show I am exploring all the options - it would mean that Buffy destroyed The Hellmouth in 1996 - when she was fifteen years old and had (at best) only just become a Slayer, and was over 18 months away from meeting Willow, Xander and Cordy. And (depending on your point of view) Dawn was four years away from being created (Although, since the modification of memories was flushed backwards through history, Dawn would've been 10).
And as for a story where Harry goes to school with The Halliwell sisters....... the less said about that, the better.
See - I have no problem with time-travel stories. So that if Buffy was dragged backwards in time to be in school with Harry, that would be fine. And if Harry went back in time to be in school with Piper, Prue and Phoebe - again, no problems.
And while I can screw with canon with the best of them, the idea of moving things around in time just seems wrong.
But the thing that bugs me the most is when the authors don't even acknowledge they've done it. Leading me to think they just don't KNOW they've done it - which just makes me despair somewhat.
Anyway. It bugs me, and I don't think I have found a single HP/Buffy crossover that doesn't jump all over these rules, which is pretty sad and pathetic, if you think about it.
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 Buffy.
An example of this type of story was one I started reading earlier : Harry Potter and The Key of Dagon.
Harry has just finished his fifth year, and yet somehow Sunnydale is already a lagoon. Meaning that the story (from Buffy's perspective) must be set after May 2003 (when Sunnydale was destroyed).
Which (if you can't do the maths yourself) would make Harry just two months shy of being 23.
Or - just to show I am exploring all the options - it would mean that Buffy destroyed The Hellmouth in 1996 - when she was fifteen years old and had (at best) only just become a Slayer, and was over 18 months away from meeting Willow, Xander and Cordy. And (depending on your point of view) Dawn was four years away from being created (Although, since the modification of memories was flushed backwards through history, Dawn would've been 10).
And as for a story where Harry goes to school with The Halliwell sisters....... the less said about that, the better.
See - I have no problem with time-travel stories. So that if Buffy was dragged backwards in time to be in school with Harry, that would be fine. And if Harry went back in time to be in school with Piper, Prue and Phoebe - again, no problems.
And while I can screw with canon with the best of them, the idea of moving things around in time just seems wrong.
But the thing that bugs me the most is when the authors don't even acknowledge they've done it. Leading me to think they just don't KNOW they've done it - which just makes me despair somewhat.
Anyway. It bugs me, and I don't think I have found a single HP/Buffy crossover that doesn't jump all over these rules, which is pretty sad and pathetic, if you think about it.
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