Catch Up Time!

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 Harry making a wish not to be a wizard, and the results that come from that wish. It was finished tonight, and posted to HP Fandom. It will come to ForeverFandom in the next day or so, and ArchiveOfOurOwn when it speeds up a little.

Silver Linings is on hiatus, because of ScriptFrenzy and The Wish, but has been fully plotted out.

The Western Sky, Series 3 is also on hiatus, because of all the other things I am writing. It will no doubt get started again soon enough. Possibly after ScriptFrenzy ends and Princess' Husband is posted.

Twilight Over Ingleside - Episode 2 is done, but the formatting is all over the place (Celtx again), and until I can sort it out, it can't be posted.

So - that's it. Y'all are up to date.

9th Floor and The Western Sky

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 and evil beings, it is a simple political drama, in the vein of The West Wing and Commander In Chief.

It deals with life at The Ministry, and with the families of those involved. Also, a group of children starting Hogwarts - the kids of the families and so forth.

Whether I continue it is kind of dependent on the number of reads/reviews it gets - since it is not a typical story, I don't know if people will be interested in it or not, and while I do mostly write for my own enjoyment, I have other series (A New Dawn, The Western Sky Series 3, Christmas in Sunnydale, Return To Willamette and Nineteen Years Later to name but a few) I can be working on as well.....

So - that's where it is.

Western Sky Updates!

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 addition, I have written four more episodes (2x07 - 2x10), and they are currently being proof read, before they are posted, and work continues on the last four episodes of the series (including a three part finale!)

My plan is to stay four chapters ahead, so I will be posting 2x07 within the next week, and then posting a new chapter each time I finish one of the final four (which hopefully should be in the next month or so, work and other things pending).

I apologise for the long delay in finishing this story, but Episode 5 really was doing my nut in, so I moved on to other stories to try to get some inspiration. And apparently, the plan worked.

Anyway - Western Sky updated. Yay!

Sidious is FINISHED!! (Again!)

I finished posting Sidious to the twin sites about three minutes ago.

Which gives me a happy.

More Sidious News

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 think the last chapter will prove the hardest to write - something else I am looking forward to!

HP Fandom Down (Ish)

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 missing chapters to there to bring the stories back in to Sync.

(On an unrelated note, I am currently six chapters ahead, and I think I am two or three chapters way from the end of the story, with an epilogue, a second epilogue and probably a "Note&Queries" chapter after that).

So, pending holidays and work related crap, "Harry Potter And The Dark Lord Sidious" should be done by the end of October. Isn't that nice?

Double Sidious!

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 as long as I originally thought, I have had to break it up in to two parts.

Which means that I ended up four chapters ahead, and thought I should possibly post at least one of them. (I also plan to post both parts of "Letters To America" at the same time, since it is one chapter!).

Hopefully regular service will be returned in due course, and I will get back to posting one chapter every three to five days.

Unless something stupid happens. But what are the odds of that?

The Dark Lord Sidious : Posted

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 - setting aside my opinions of FFN, the first chapter is posted, which is good. Whether people like it or not, we'll see soon enough. And whether I've broken any site-rules will also become apparent.

There should be another chapter before the end of the week - I am doing two chapters ahead rather than one, because it's proving somewhat harder to write than I originally thought.

As for the other stories - A New Dawn : Enemies is having problems - the start of the third part is already tending towards being a lot like the last two, and quite a lot like The Silent Trio (in certain ways), so I'm going to take a slight pause and continue with Sidious, which will hopefully give me an idea of how to write it better.

And I spent my lunch re-reading the start of The Western Sky, and once I am done with that, I might be able to get back to it, and write "Shadows Of The Past" can start again.

And now, it is time for bed.

Starlight - The Movie - posted

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.

(ForeverFandom.net has no problem with it, but HP Fandom doesn't permit "original fiction" on the site - which is what Starlight apparently is).

Meanwhile, A New Dawn (Allies) continues a pace, and my notes for Dark Lord Sidious also continue to be written. Which is nice.

Allies (A New Dawn II)

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 The Holiday From Hell" completed, and maybe ready for posting (though Celtx, for all the good it has, is not good for HTML export, so it might take a week or so to tidy up), and I should be able to continue "Allies" by the second week in May (the writing side - the posting side might take a few days more).

But, as a preview.......

Harry and Dawn stand behind Luna, as she looks down at two youngish woman who are sat on the floor. They both look sad.

LUNA LOVEGOOD

Marji, Gina - I know you two need to grieve, but it's important to remember that Lee died saving you, and that he would want you to make sure you survive this, and not just give up (pauses, then smirks) I guess what I'm saying is don't cry for Lee, Marj and Gina.

The two girls burst out laughing, while Harry and Dawn roll their eyes.

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.

When Tomorrow Comes.

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 good. Whether people actually like the story or not, I guess we shall see.

Ladies and Gentlemen - I can at last say it.

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 that is, the most important part is that 1x14 is now posted, and Series 1 of The Western Sky is now complete. So hurray!

The Western Sky - 1x12 and 1x13

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 chapter, because the first had taken so long.

Anyway - they are posted now, and hopefully the last episode of the series "When Tomorrow Comes" should be done within two weeks, depending on how real life goes :)

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?

Finally! 1x07 and 1x08

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 the time Series 1 ends.

I guess we shall see what happens....

Death, Life and Cupcakes

Episode 4 (Death, Life and Cupcakes) of The Western Sky is now posted at ffdn, however if you are new to this series, I would advise reading Episodes 1 to 3 first, otherwise you will be utterly confused. (Also, it might be helpful to read the six Silent Trio stories, as TWS is a continuation of that story. So you have lots of homework to do!)

Of course, even after you have read 1 to 3 and 4, you might still be confused, but there isn't much I can do about that :)

Episode 5 will hopefully be done in around a week or so, pending other commitments and complications.