My Octopus is transferred

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 :)

Still Down (le sigh)

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)

The Silent Trio Rises Again

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 was only those that were violated was because Chapter 5 of "Harry and The Curse Of Exum" was the first one written directly on to the computer (Glinda), rather than hand written then typed up. Because of this, I changed the separator I used (xoxox, rather than a set of dashes. This was down to Open Office translating the series of dashes as a horizontal line, which pissed me off no end. I guess if I hadn't been pissed off, the M22 wouldn't have affected me, but that's the way the cookie gets eaten).

So - anyway - after the M22 Virus was let loose, and just short of four and a half stories were mutilated, I ended up deleting them, and it meant they only appeared on http://www.hpfandom.net.

But now that Series 1 of The Western Sky is almost complete (I am about to start writing Act 3 of the series finale), I thought I would start copying Silent Trio to another site, to spread the joy, so to speak.

At the moment, Part 1 (Harry and The New Girl) and the prologue to Part 2 (Harry and The Hufflepuff) are there, and I plan to copy two chapters per day until the six stories are complete, then do The Western Sky one episode at a time.

I also have a fair bit of work to do on Lost In Hyrule, but I am going to start that once TWS is complete, and possibly 19YL is continued, if not finished.

So ends the week of hell.

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 To School Two Parter, and the one featuring something I have been thinking about for a while) and continue with Lost II (although that is proving harder than it did when I was hand writing it. Should I go back to hand writing it? Maybe)

I want to continue with 19YL, but it is proving a nightmare to write. The in between parts especially.

Anyways. WOH-M22 is done. Which is nice.

Happily Ever After (1x09)

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 typed up, but I am not going to start posting them until TWS is complete, as LIH is going to act as an inter-series special - a made for TV movie type thing. But, before you start wondering if I am spoiling the end of Series 1 by telling you that Harry and friends end up in Hyrule, the answer is no. The special will be entirely AU from the series, just because it will be fun.

As to what happens at the end of Series 1 - well, that would be telling, wouldn't it?

God, I am good

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 weekend, I might actually be able to get it started.

All in all, a good day.

An idea I think I can use

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 on in fear.

A picture of Luna, Cho, Ron, Pansy, Susan and Remus stood in a circle, surrounding Harry.

A picture of Sally, Harry and Ginny superimposed on an image of three golden triangles. At the top of the screen, we see the words “COMING SOON”

Lost In Hyrule?

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 Hyrule cast, including Zelda, Darunia, Saria, Impa and company, as well as the Big Temple Bads and (well duh) Ganon.

My biggest problem is not the casting (although I have no idea about that), but how to tell the story. Do I go through each Dungeon, or just do the highlights of each? (Finding the fairy slingshot, fighting the boss etc).

I will give this more thought, and maybe write one or two chapters, just to see how it goes. Plus I have to work out the cast before I start. Though I am pretty sure that Ron would be Darunia if Harry is Link, and even if it turns out there is a female link (Minnie or Luna), Ron could still be the Goron leader.

So - what do you think? Can I do it? Should I even try?