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?

The 9th Floor Continues

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.

Naughty Bear and Harry Potter

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 update The Western Sky with 3x03, and hopefully post The Princess Husband. That is proving problematic because the formatting is a nightmare, and I am not enjoying it that much. But I have a whole day off tomorrow, so you never know........

Meanwhile, Bedtime Stories is going quite well.

The Red Curtains Trilogy

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 part of that world, since for most of Dumbledore's life, almost all the characters in Twin Peaks hadn't been born).

The stories don't cover all of Albus' life, but instead moves to the important parts (his early home life, until he finishes Hogwarts, then Tom Riddle's time at school and the first of the dark wars until the first fall of Voldemort, then the second dark war from Harry's return to the world until the end of the war.

Unusually, these stories won't focus on Harry or the other main characters - instead it will be Dumbledore, Selenes (who is Selenes? Well - you'll figure it out eventually) and Tom.

Currently the second arc is being plotted out, and I have more or less reached the point where Dumbledore and Grindlewald are fighting.

So - this is a huge, long term story that will not be done any time soon, but should be fun.

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.

Plots and 48 Hours

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 under-age magic use) and Luna Lovegood (who was starting a relationship with Hermione at the time) has left Hogwarts, and she and her father have moved out of The UK.

After the hearing, Dumbledore and Fudge start spreading stories about them turning dark, trying to turn the population against them. But a few of Harry's friends remain loyal, even when Umbridge arrives and starts hurting people who speak out.

Meanwhile, three new students (Twin brother and sister, and a third girl) transfer from Salem Institute to Beauxbatons School, and make new friends in the French school.

The thing is, I have an idea of what could happen, but right now, I am entirely lost about what the actual plot is, which makes writing a little harder than you might think. So I think the next two days will be working out the story line ("narrative plotting" stage) before I try to write any more of the actual story.

However this is going to be interrupted by two things. First - my beloved coming to stay (during which I never write, because - lets face it - who would?) and second, ScriptFrenzy 2010 starts in 47 hours and 18 minutes, and I will be putting all my energy in to The Princess' Husband (which is now going to be all magical, instead of non-magical as I originally planned).

So Silver Linings might not get properly written until May. Which seems forever away, but isn't really.

My New Site

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://www.hpfandom.net/eff/viewuser.php?uid=4145) and Forever Fandom (http://www.foreverfandom.net/viewuser.php?uid=32408) because it seems a bit pointless deleting all my stories, but I am also reposting some of the stories, and adding the new ones to the new site -

http://archiveofourown.org/users/angelholme

So - enjoy.

Current State of Affairs

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 doodling "Twlight over Ingleside", but so far all I have is the opening scene (see later for something that just occurred to me) and a vague idea of what could happen. But there is no plot - not even the idea of a plot - so that is really not going to be ready any time soon. (And even if it is, I am not certain there are any sites I can currently post it to. HP Fandom is out, because it is not an HP story (unusual for me, I know), and ForeverFandom doesn't have a Green Gables section (and while it is a Twilight Crossover, there is only one, maybe two Twilight characters, so I suspect that it won't qualify).

There is FF.Net, but since I swore blind I would not go back there, I guess I will have to find somewhere else.....

Anyway - "The Princess Husband" is going to be my main focus for the next 54 days (except for five days when my beloved comes to visit) and it will be posted after that, then normal service can resume!

Windows 7

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 :)

I guess the votes are in :(

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 as well. But plotting out a story....

We'll see, but for now I'm going to go with something else. Maybe "The Princess' Husband"

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!

New Site News.

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 at
http://www.hpfandom.net/eff/viewuser.php?uid=4145
and all my other stories (along with most of the HP ones) can be found at
http://www.foreverfandom.net/viewuser.php?uid=32408 (however this does not include The Silent Trio nor The Western Sky, though I do plan to change that)

I have also started posting on a new site - http://www.ficwad.com/author/69837 - for both my fanfiction stories and the original stuff I have written.

I have abandoned Fanfiction.Net after the March 22nd Debacle, and the refusal of the site-admins to even acknowledge they screwed up, even though a fair number of users think they did.

Maybe if they fix the problem they caused, and promise not to do it again, I would feel happy about returning. But until I can be sure that the site will let me publish my stories as I want them to be seen, I am not going to risk putting any more stories on there.

Alarums!

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 suppose.

Sidious is FINISHED!! (Again!)

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

Which gives me a happy.

The Ninth Floor

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 fictional universe (and at what point did I start referring to JK Rowling's world as "real"?) with almost everyone alive.

Because that way people might get more interested in the story, since they recognise more of the characters.

The question now becomes can I come up with enough to fill out a few stories without people getting bored?

Lost In Forkes

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.

xoxox

Harry 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 glanced at Sally, who nodded encouragingly. He smiled back, and slowly pulled the car to a halt beside them. He rolled down the window and and leaned out.

"Excuse me - could you tell me how to get to the freeway?"

"Sure" The young man grinned "Turn left at the crossroads, and it's about five miles from there"

"Thanks" Harry beamed "Have a nice day" He waved as they drove off.

Edward Cullen watched them go, then turned to Bella.

"He seemed nice"

xoxox

Thank you.

xoxox

I should add, I have spent most of the day writing reports and presentations and this just popped in to my head.

Sidious is FINISHED!!

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 Letter, a complete list of members of The Conspiracy and how they were punished, and a complete disclaimer/notes chapter (mostly answering questions from reviews, and one or two other things that came up).

The three additional chapters will be posted at the same time as the last two, while the other five chapters (16, 17, 18, 19 and 20) will be posted once every two or three days over the coming fortnight, since they still need to be properly proof-read.

But it is done, and I am actually very happy with how it has turned out. The Battle Hymn scene went exactly as I wanted, and the two final chapters also turned out as I pictured them in my head. Which is nice.

I think after this there will be a short break (probably involving Blue Dragon) and then I am going to try to get back to "Enemies", since I should finish off "A New Dawn" before going on to anything else.

(On a related note, I have figured out how to restart 19 years Later, so hopefully that will follow "A New Dawn"'s completion).

But for now, I am just happy that my first proper time travel story is finished. Because the last two chapters were a complete bitch to get right.

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?