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

[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