Hola, HP fen!

[icarus]

Hola, HP fen!

One of my coworkers is an HP writer. Harry/Draco. Just starting out in fandom having only been exposed to ff.net so far.

We (anime fanfic author extraordinaire, katmaxwell, and myself) are hooking her up with an LJ, although I understand many HP people have fled to InsaneJournal. I'll point her towards Fiction Alley of course, heidi8, but I'm far out of the loop in Harry/Draco-land these days -- if I ever was in the loop.

Some questions for you all:

- Where's the HP porn these days?
- Where do you post your Harry/Draco fic?
- Where are the comms?
- Where's the porn?
- Who are the latest and greatest Harry/Draco authors nowadays?
- Who's writing the fine Harry/Draco and HP meta nowadays? (Yes, regan_v's great for meta, but she hates Draco.)
- Where are the beta readers because, no, although she's a writing tutor, she'd not heard there are beta readers out there.
- What classic Harry/Draco fics would you send her to?
Yes, yes, I know I should know, but I figure you know better since I was more into Snape. And Harry/Ron. And Ron/Draco. And Percy.
- Where's the porn?

Annnd... any advice for a new HP writer?

*Icarus rolls out the red carpet for all and sundry*

*crickets chirp*

No takers on the red carpet?

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- Where's the HP porn these days?

At pushdragon's journal (see "A Tale of Horns").

- Where do you post your Harry/Draco fic?

When I started out, I posted it on ff.net. Then I got bored with ff.net and moved to FictionAlley, and when they started sending my stories back blank, agreed to post fics on my journal as well as doing exchanges and posting a few specialized fics (like my Teddy/James "Mirrors") in communities specifically for that pairing.

- Where are the comms?

I don't stick to comms too much, so: not sure. I'd rather trawl through rec comms than anything else, so for that I'd say crack_broom is good, and though she's not a comm, painless_j.

- Where's the porn?

In the subtext.

- Who are the latest and greatest Harry/Draco authors nowadays?

Many of my favorites are authors who don't write much anymore, the biggest of which is Maya. I pretty much worship whatever she types, but all her fanfic is coming down in September, so everyone should rush out and save it to their computers before it's gone! Frayach is excellent. Pushdragon, again. Scoradh has written a few things I love. OH. I can't believe I forgot them! Blythely and circe_tigana are goddesses of HP fic. Blythely's Corridors of Power makes me wibble a bit (because I am a politics whore) and circe_tigana writes gorgeous Slytherins. They collaborated recently on Currency, which can be found at by_blythe comm.

- Who's writing the fine Harry/Draco and HP meta nowadays? (Yes, regan_v's great for meta, but she hates Draco.)

I don't read much meta, so I'm not sure.

- Where are the beta readers because, no, although she's a writing tutor, she'd not heard there are beta readers out there.

I'll beta pretty much anything. I love to edit, so it makes me happy to get a fic from one of my favorites early and be able to fix the tiny grammar errors that set my teeth on edge. (Also, it means I get to be the first to read the rough draft of some of the best fics out there, which is squee material.) I'm an utter grammar/spelling snob (and now that I've said that, I'm quite sure I'll make some hideous error in this post), so my edits are often half-copyediting and half-plot quibbles.

- What classic Harry/Draco fics would you send her to?
Yes, yes, I know I should know, but I figure you know better since I was more into Snape. And Harry/Ron. And Ron/Draco. And Percy.

Anything written by Maya, ever, but Underwater Light especially because that was the fic that made me fall in love with H/D. I have rather a lot of AUs on here: Corridors of Power, Left my Heart (by Emma Grant), A Thousand Beautiful Things (by geoviki). Alternate (by copperbadge, found at sam_storyteller).

And, okay, I know this is supposed to be H/D only. But there should never be a single person belonging to the HP fandom who has not read The Shoebox Project. I think it's treason. You could be beheaded.

- Where's the porn?

Wherever fandom is.

Annnd... any advice for a new HP writer?

Ask everyone you meet about cliches, and avoid them like the plague. Writers who come up with original takes on the same story are pretty much revered (see Maya, Blythely, etc). And follow the same rules of writing as you did before you entered fandom, i.e., just because you want Harry and Draco to get together already, you can't just skip to the climax and leave the rest of us with the wind knocked out of us. Find a way to make the in-between bits interesting, because that's what really makes a story. And enjoy your writing. That's what really got me into HP fandom: there's so much room to play here, and none of the writing is being judged or graded--it's for your own pleasure. I amused myself greatly making up stories about the portraits in the dungeons and so on. Fandom is for fun.

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Cool, thank you. There was a "delay" but she's around now. *drumroll* Introducing... thelovesupreme. :)