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July 16, 2018
From Spark to Story: My Writing Process
From Spark to Story: My Writing Process
One thing I’ve always found interesting is how the development of a story can vary from author to author. Everyone eventually finds techniques and patterns that work for them, helping them to cultivate their initial idea into a finished product. Personally, my process has developed through a great deal of trial and error of different methods until I arrived at the way I approach stories now.…
memoryslandscape:
“At night when the moon was mine
& the hungry wind held me high,
I knew I...
“At night when the moon was mine
& the hungry wind held me high,
I knew I could never
be grounded again.”— M.E. Silverman, from “Love Poem for Wings,” The Floating Door: Poems (Glass Lyre Press, 2018)
July 15, 2018
Kim Shimmers and the Veil of Death
A Harry Potter fanfic by me (and the 4th instalment in the Kim Shimmers series)
How could we ever hope to flicker on against a
darkness so complete, against an evil so prevailing?
This Harry Potter fan fiction (as long as all goes according to plan) will be posted at the beginning of every week. The pictures above are not mine, though I edited some.
Chapter 12
Luck Runs Out
As soon as Kim was able, she arranged a meeting with Dumbledore in his office. She had not yet told Harry anything, including that they were cousins, for fear that she would be going against Dumbledore’s wishes. If she told Harry that she was related to him, she would have to explain how she knew, which would require her to explain why she’d been researching his ancestry. She suspected it wouldn’t be long before Harry was told about all of this, all the secrets she and Dumbledore had kept from him that year. Once he knew the truth, telling him about their shared heritage would be easy, so she didn’t bother trying to come up with a way to tell him before then.
And then there was also the fact that Kim was uncertain she should tell him at all. What would he think of the news? What did she think? Part of her was still having a hard time believing it to be true, though she had seen the proof for herself. Perhaps Harry wouldn’t even believe her on just her word.
“Come in,” came Dumbledore’s voice from within his office. Kim opened the door and shut it behind her. Her fingers were trembling even though she’d come here for important conversations many times before. None of them quite felt like this.
Dumbledore stood still by the stairs, watching Kim as she moved to the center of his office by the chair, but didn’t say a word. He patiently waited for her to speak.
“I’ve done what you asked. I found the invisibility cloak, the one from the legends.”
“As I knew you would,” he said, smiling keenly. “Though this was impressively quick, even for a witch of your intelligence.”
“Well… it wasn’t nearly as hard as you would expect… Professor… Harry’s cloak is the cloak of invisibility. The one cut from Death’s cloak. He’s had it all along.”
At this, Dumbledore’s smile faltered and his brow furrowed slightly. “That’s… not possible.”
“Not just possible, it is. I’ve done all my homework, let me explain before you say it’s not true. First of all, I thought the same exact thing when I first had the idea… It started when I was getting- something for Harry,” she said, stumbling a bit on the words. She thought it would’ve been wiser to leave out that she had ventured into the boys dormitory in Gryffindor Tower, two things simultaneously that were forbidden. But, alas, it was too late now, and it had led her to completing the mission Dumbledore had issued her, so he couldn’t be too angry with her.
“Well, to be honest professor, I went into his dormitory to get it… Sorry, he was in the hospital wing and, anyway, I saw the cloak in his trunk and I was just curious, you know, not really thinking anything of it. I pulled it out and noticed some odd markings. They’re very faint, if you weren’t looking at it closely you wouldn’t see them at all. And then, even if you did see them, unless you laid it out on the floor so you could see the whole thing at once, you wouldn’t know what they were. Professor Dumbledore… his cloak has the symbol of the Deathly Hallows on it.” She paused, giving the importance of her words dramatic effect and letting them sink in.
“That is… I must say I’m displeased with myself for having missed something that… well, obvious. Right under my nose. But, unfortunately, I am merely an ordinary man that happens to be very good at appearing extraordinary,” he said, sounding rather tired as he lowered himself into his chair. “And so I am just as capable of human errors such as these as anyone else.
Today I edited 39k words of my sequel to my TIGER WIP found under #TIGERLook, that’s a lot guys,...
Today I edited 39k words of my sequel to my TIGER WIP found under #TIGER
Look, that’s a lot guys, even for me so I’m pretty proud of that. And I finished this round of edits so I’m ready to send it to my people to read, which makes me one step closer to putting the first book out there! (I want to have all three as close to publish read before I publish the first one). Anyway, excerpt:
“The minute we don’t return when we’re supposed to, TIGER is going to
come looking for us. Our family homes are the first places they’re going to
look.
Convo Question for my followers:
For any followers who have written series, do you feel like there’s a trend as to which book is your strongest? As in, is the first always the best, the last, the middle, ect?
Find The Word Tag
Okay, so I was forever ago by @writeontheedge. Thank you so much for the tag, I love being tagged in these things. I just let this post live in my drafts for far too long, so finally here it is, searching for my wip #TIGER
Heart
“Chloe’s mouth was dry from hanging open and her
heart was thundering, as if she were stalked prey, cornered, destined to be
a snack.”
Darkness
“She waited for darkness. She waited for it to be
over.”
I know that last one was two sentences but they are small so deal. I TAG @jaceykdew, @justanotherwriteress, and @writerkaitlinm to do the words Last and Tried.
P.S. Sorry if I tag you too much or never, I try to tag different followers who I know are writers here and there but can’t remember who I tagged last.
purplebuddhaquotes:
“Some people would rather live in a hell they’ve got used to than in a paradise...
“Some people would rather live in a hell they’ve got used to than in a paradise they’ve never experienced before.”— Urania Sarri
