Rumours of my demise have been somewhat exaggerated

[icarus]

As I was telling melpemone, I'm not done writing HP. I'm just in a burned out phase, and it feels like a deeper sort of burn out then the last three. (Or four?) The stories coming to mind don't have a lot of meat to them. I don't wanna write crap just to keep writing HP.

I mean, I don't have to write well, that's something for the 10th draft, but there has to be something compelling at the core of each story. It's not there right now, not in HP stories.

It could be I'm just tired, or it could be that I need more canon to chew. But that 'core' feeling, like I have something to say, it's there in SG-1.

Perhaps I'll need to do the occasional HP story, but wait for new HP canon. Or maybe I just need to give myself time to recover, read a while.

Or perhaps something will grab me next week, I dunno. But right now, it's not there. It's not writer's block - that's different. There you feel the story, but it's constipated, stuck. This more like I'm... dry.

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[lillian78.livejournal.com]

I was a fan of the show and did read a lot of SG slash but I'm sorry to say that I really only liked a couple of writers. Maybe it was me but most of what I saw written couldn't hold a candle to what was being produced in the HP fandom. I hope I haven't ticked anyone off or anything that's just my personal opinion. But back to HP if I begged prettily is there any chance that we'll see more updates of Reunion? I just become a fangirl err...rather fanwoman of that series.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Well, we have to bear in mind that the HP fandom is 30 times the size of the Stargate fandom (statistics based on a comparison of numbers of ff.net stories).

30 times. So where you might have 3000 Stargate stories, you will have 90,000 for Harry Potter. Proportionately there may be an equal number of good writers, but in HP you'll have 90 fabulous writers whereas in Stargate SG-1 you'll only have 3.

Which is, yeah, about how many prolific, high-quality SG-1 writers you'll find. It's a little more than that. But beyond this, you have to hunt for those single good stories where someone dipped their toe in and left.

if I begged prettily is there any chance that we'll see more updates of Reunion? I just become a fangirl err...rather fanwoman of that series.

I didn't say I was dumping the story. A Deserving Man will probably never be finished. It was for my father, but he didn't comment after the last chapter so, *shrug*. Reunion I intend to finish, since I want to write an MPreg I could tolerate. But it is a very s-l-o-w-l-y updated story, has been from the beginning. I warn people when they review and ask for updates.

Icarus