Proclamations, trumpets and banners waving!

Hear ye, hear ye!

icarusancalion is now issuing a challenge to the voters of hpbnfdeathmatch to, as ye vote for ye favourite bnf (you do not want to know what wildernessguru thought that acronym stood for), that ye shalt also Name Ye Favourite Fic/Artwork/Whatever of selfsame author so that I can selfishly use it to find new stories to enjoy All Persons Shalt Be Able To Judge The Worke fairly and equitably.

*Trumpets sound. Banners snap. And the horses dump turds on the road as the procession moves on to another town. "Hear ye, hear ye..."*

Writing Meme gacked from Aome

Year-end writing meme
Taken from aome. Apparently this circles around every year.

1. Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?

I thought my last fic was going to be Primer to the Dark Arts. Then I wrote A Moment of Sin. And then... well, it just exploded.

2. What pairing (or genre or fandom) did you write that you would never have predicted in January 2003?

I was strictly a Harry/Ron person, who got hooked on Harry/Snape. What pairings didn't I predict? LOLOLOLOLOLOL!

Ron/Draco
Harry/Percy
Harry/Ron/Snape (oh, it said pairings didn't it?)
Percy/Snape
Ron/Snape
Draco/Percy
Hagrid/Buckbeak
Harry/Cho
Hermione/Rita
Ron/Sirius
Percy/Ron
Percy/Dumbledore
Percy/Lucius

Pretty much everything I wrote.

I still haven't written Harry/Draco.

3. What's your favorite story of the year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest.

That's a toss-up. I have to say there are four of them:

A Moment of Sin - because of the magic and the description, the mystery and the building tension. Terry Boot was so vivid.

Beg Me For It (the first part) - because of Ron's sense of humour in the darkness. He was non-stop.

Sweet Hypocrisy - because Percy was supposed to just get a comeuppance, and instead he took over the character in the story, inhabited him, showed me his rose-coloured glasses and blindness and unexpected nobility and I fell in love.

Skinny Dipping - because of Harry and Percy together. Percy's fragility brought out Harry's horny bastard and gentleness at the same time. They were so unexpectedly sweet together.

4. Did you take any writing risks this year? (See above for unexpected pairings, etc.) What did you learn from them?

Beg Me For It. Non-con arena fic where the Death Eaters took over? Ron/Draco when I thought there wasn't a chance in hell they could ever work out -- and keeping it dark but laughing at the DEs? How 'bout keeping Ron masculine but putting him into a dress, stoned out of his mind (when I've never done the stuff (ah, but wildernessguru sure has -- he didn't think I could pull it off. Write what you know, eh? Just proved I have an alive imagination.)

But the real risk is yet to come: SNAFU. ( Cut because I'm whining back here )

5. Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year?

I never set goals. And if I do, I never tell people what they are. But if I were to set goals, it would be to start the process of rejection slips by writing and sending original fiction to sources of rejection letters. Because I've had a lot people encouraging me down that miserable and self-destructive path. The other would be to write Snape Manor, which has had two incarnations so far: one pre-OotP and one post-OotP. Another -- finish Beg Me For It. Because I am just soooooo close.

It would be fun to do a Snape trilogy, just to prove I could do it.

Looking for Betas for Ron/Harry fics

Hi there! I'm looking for someone who'd like to Beta read two Harry/Ron fics:

- Special Delivery. NC-17, written for Mad Martha's 'Circles of Power' universe. A bed is delivered and tried out.

- At Fauntleroy And Diagon Alley. PG-13. Ron teaches Harry about Gaydar.

Any takers? *Looks around hopefully.*