Snape Manor

[icarus]

Woah. I've just spent the last [insert ridiculous number because I lost count] of hours talking to cordelia_v about Snape Manor. She now knows the entire plot as it stands now, and why I've been struggling with it.

Do I want to write this story? Even after two years it continues to haunt me.

Am I the last person to read In Between Days by atrata? Because if I'm not and you haven't, you must read this, as it's the finest, most uncompromisingly relentless characterisation of Snape I've ever read. Snape/Harry, NC-17.

For the time being, I'm off to write Percy/Snape. Or perhaps Jack/Daniel, I'm not sure which, but I'm writing something today.

Comments

[atrata.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I dunno how that prompt is going to be a drabble. And I really do love Snape/Percy. I keep meaning to write more, but I'm pretty fickle about ... well. Everything. *g*

[I have written one story (http://www.livejournal.com/community/pornish_pixies/238602.html), but I don't know if you saw it. I think you weren't around much when it was posted. 'You' being Cordelia, since I know Icarus saw it.]

[cordelia_v]

I did see it, but that was when I was on medical leave, I think. And in those days, I was too foolish to appreciate Percy properly. I've bookmarked it now, so I can go savor it again once this damned chapter is finished.

And nothing you ever write is a drabble, dear. That's why I edited it to say "ficlet."

[atrata.livejournal.com]

Hey, I wrote drabbles once! I did!

... just because I wrote nine of them and called it a story doesn't negate the fact that drabbles exist!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I think that drabble should be an elastic term, stretched to fit the appropriate length of the idea at hand. Once the story strides into 2,000 words or so, it may be dubbed a Vignette, but not before.

Icarus

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Ha. Not only has Cordelia seen it, she rec'd it to me. But as it's Percy, of course I'd read it first. :D

Atrata, I truly am a fan. Usually, and I mean no arrogance when I say this, I read a fanfic and I can see myself being able to pull this off. Not that I'd ever have the writer's unique creative idea, but were the idea to occur to me, I know I could write it. In most cases, my beta reader light is on and there are few things I'd have done differently.

Not so with In Between Days. I could never have pulled off that story. And there is nothing I would change. My hat's off to you.

Icarus

[atrata.livejournal.com]

Gah. I don't even know what to say to something like that that's not blushy and stammery and flaily. Thank you. That story was such a huge part of me, and it's really immensely gratifying that people like it so much.

*goes back to flailing quietly in the corner*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Good.

A sincere compliment is like a punch in the gut: it should leave you speechless.

Icarus