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

[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