Website move.

[icarus]

I've moved my websites. They are now at:


http://home.earthlink.net/~percyfest - for the Percy Ficathon.

And back to:

http://home.earthlink.net/~dinkbird - for Icarus Slash Fiction.


These are the sites that are going to be updated in the future. I've asked muse-wanted.com to take the http://percyfest.muse-wanted.com down.

The next part of Beg Me For It is up at Icarus Fiction.
Two new stories are up at the Percyfest.

Comments

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Reading it makes you 'feel' so much.

Wow. Thank you.

I think I'd like to read it, beginning to end. Given a little time, so it's all fresh. Does the transition from Stand In The Ruins to Scarred work?

Icarus

[not-sally.livejournal.com]

Yep. Specially if you read it all at once. It's almost like one (very) long fic.
I remember the first time I read Scarred I was slightly lost (because I'm talking back in the day when there was no Stand in the Ruins or SNAFU), because I was all like: "Weren't Ron and Draco together AND trapped inside the Ministry?"
But now with the previous two parts it's easy. Specially because you mentioned that Ron had gone to the Burrow and Draco back to Malfoy Manor, so...
And reading it all at once was cool, and very much recommendable. It took me roughly four hours.

[blackbanditt.livejournal.com]

Not to interrupt your conversation, but I read SNAFU and Stand in the Ruins today (and I'm in the midst of a review!), and then re-read Scarred, and I thought it worked fine. Scarred was a little ambiguous, missing a few details--you wrote that fairly early on, so I'm guessing you didn't know exactly how everything was going to turn out, with SNAFU and Stand in the Ruins? I wasn't sure exactly when it took place (though I was reading carelessly enough to miss any clues), but it seemed like a few weeks after Stand in the Ruins. I thought the transition went well, and readers probably wouldn't notice the difference. The characterizations were pretty convincing even though you wrote Scarred a lot earlier than its prequels.

I was going to ask this in my review, but I may as well do it here. Considering you just had to stick in the middle stories and everything feels resolved, is this the end of the Beg Me For It series? Except for the drabbles? Sorry if you've answered this question before!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I haven't answered that question before, and yes -- Scarred was written February/March of 2003. Before Sex, Drugs and Death Eater Rock actually. I didn't know Beg Me For It was going to be more than a one-shot.

Stand In The Ruins was written April/May pre-OotP, and then revised several times. But it had to wait until SNAFU was written.

My first attempt at writing SNAFU (last August) turned into Hey You. We needed a transition story. And then it took forever to do the research on SNAFU.

There are a couple things that came up in SNAFU that aren't resolved, specifically Ron and Harry. Then, some people have wondered how Ron and Draco ended up apart, though Stand In The Ruins addresses that sort of obliquely. The drabble I'm writing (which technically falls in the middle of Stand In The Ruins, time-wise) addresses those.

Icarus

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Heh. Noticed I didn't answer your question.

Yes, other than a couple drabbles, that's the whole story.

Scarred takes place about 12 weeks after the fall of the Ministry, though just a few weeks after Stand In The Ruins (since that story covers a pretty big period of time).

Icarus

[blackbanditt.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that clears things up. I'm a bit surprised you wrote Scarred as early as you did, even before parts two and three. But the timeframe does explain what I said was a lack of details in Scarred.

Now I want to try what not_sally did and re-read it all in one go. :) When I get the time!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I hope you do have time. :D

Scarred came out of listening to a song right after Beg Me For It and it was so vivid, I had to write it down. It's the most unabashedly romantic story I've ever written.

Then the seeds for Death Eater Rock were mentioned in Scarred. The drunken-ness and dancing. That gave me the idea for DER (since the next Boozefest was coming up anyway, I wanted to write a "drunk-o-logue").

Then as I wrote Death Eater Rock, Stand In The Ruins poured into my notes to tie them all together.

When I was doing the beta for Death Eater Rock, well, I've written about that. isiscolo was right that SNAFU was needed. I'd hinted too much about Ron's plan. :D

SNAFU was pure hell to write, and Hey You was my first attempt. It was supposed to be preamble.

But it became clear that I needed to do more to set up what the Ministry was like, so everyone would cheer when it collapsed. So I knew what they were fighting, and I needed more tension.

Hey You came out of another song (obviously) that I was listening to just for mood music, and it sucked in the lyrics - fwoooP!

I meant for the drabbles to go into Death Eater Rock, but they didn't work. So I planned to put them into Hey You, but the lyrics to the Pink Floyd song were too perfect, and I wondered if I could pull off a songfic. It was so appropriate to Percy that he became the focal point of the story. Also, as I wrote the background for the plan, Percy became more important (badly needed).

Originally the plan was going to be the focus of Hey You. Neville or some other agent of Dumbledore's was going to infiltrate the Ministry. But that would have ruined the claustrophobic atmosphere, so I abandoned that idea.

People read both Beg Me For It and Scarred (early on), and then imagined their own plotline to connect the two, emailing me about their image of what happened. There was one person who was really excited, so I encouraged her to write her ideas -- I told that I would never resent her creativity, and it wasn't stealing. Each story is our own, whatever the inspiration. :D

Some people came to me later to say, "oh, tsk, there's this story that's just like Beg Me For It" without realising that I gave the go ahead.

Icarus