Last four HP fragments

[resonant]

Green Earrings
Hermione/Angelina/Katie -- PG -- 1500 words
So pretty.
Not quite unfinished; just doesn't add up to anything.

The Project
Harry/Snape -- NC-17 -- 5000 words of story plus 2000 words of chat log
He wished it had been anyone other than Snape.
I can't remember whether julad's suggestions actually changed the story as written, or if the most I'd gotten around to doing with them was pasting in the chat log.
Note: I feel I should put some sort of warning on this, because cesperanza hated it -- scenes that I'd thought of as merely distant and clinical had a horrible squicky noncon feeling to her. You know your own squicks; if you have any concerns, I'm happy to answer questions.

Icebreaker
Harry/Snape/Lupin -- deeply, profoundly NC-17 -- 14,300 words
Harry brews a potion.
Riddled with gaps; also switches from third person to first and has a couple of separate beginnings. I had beta help here from bethbethbeth, giglet, and julad.


True Minds
Harry/Snape -- R -- 4200 words
Legilimency and everything after.
this is mostly notes; what little narrative there is is an odd style because a lot of it is taking place inside a Legilimancy session. The story would have been a big, significant one if I'd ever been able to write it, which is probably why I couldn't.

Comments

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

I have been enjoying reading these unfinished fics. I enjoy what you've done, and more than that, I'm learning a lot from this picture of your writing process.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

People keep saying that, and it worries me a bit. What are y'all learning? And can you teach it to me? (Probably you're just learning, "Oh, hey, she decides she wants to write a certain kind of sex, and then she has to come up with a story to fit.")

[cat-latin.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to finish work so I can settle back happily to read!

[tevere.livejournal.com]

I love seeing your writing process laid open like this, all bare bones and wandering tangential thoughts. Usually your stories are so gorgeously complete -- worlds in themselves -- that it's fascinating for me to see them in a skeletal state. The Project in particular -- it feels like it would've been such a huge, intense, complex story if it were ever finished, with the relationship progression all the reasons-behind-the-fucking parts ironed out. And actually -- even though I found the first couple of sections mildly squicky, the fact that the power dynamic started off as that and changed and developed so dramatically -- that really worked for me, and I think made the latter half more powerful (and hot!). There's so much scope for playing with that complicated Harry/Snape relationship that I really wish I could've seen you push this scenario right to (one of) the natural conclusion(s), but-- hey *g*. I can live with just the fragments.

PS. Clive is just the best faun name *g*.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I don't know where I would have gone with the Project -- Julad and I often spin those huge plots (well, she spins them and I watch and go, "Ooh! Aah!") and then they go nowhere in the actual writing.

The power dynamic thing is something I'd like to play with more, the gap between sex and intimacy. That's one of the things that can be very powerful in an "aliens make them do it" story, too. I love that kind of stuff.

(I wanted so badly to finish the story just because the fauns had such fun names.)

[slash-eater.livejournal.com]

Hello Resonant!

I'm a helper on PSA, and I'm here just to inform you that you've been assigned to me, so I hope it's ok to friend you and watch you on my flist.(new fics and all)

BTW, although it's quite obvious - these fics, fragments, are not for publishing anywhere, right?

Cheers! :D

P.S. I couldn't resist, I must say: I ♥ Transfigurations. I couldn't stop reading it, I was totally addicted!! I love all the details, atmosphere, characters - so complex yet so smooth to read. It's just...beautiful.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Hello there! Of course it's fine to friend me, though I hope you and the PSA won't get your hopes up; I really don't anticipate writing any more HP. (On the other hand, I haven't read the new book yet, so who knows.)

And, yes, you're right, I'd rather not have these archived anywhere.

Glad you liked Transfigurations! I had such a good time writing that.

[zabira.livejournal.com]

I've been enjoying these bits-n-bobs, but I have to say, so far my favorite (and the most mysteriously interesting plot-wise) has been "The Project." I really, really wanted to see where it was going. There were SO many interesting and awesomely angst-y nuances to the situation (which you could so easily have played for total crack ridiculousness), and I almost shed a little tear when I realized I'd never see them all resolved. If you could ever, ever see yourself finishing it, I'd be more than happy to send you some, I dunno, chocolate or something, in exchange. Anyway...thanks again for posting these.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the offer -- really, if I were able to finish these, that would be its own reward.

I wonder if at some point in the future I might come back to HP, when its canon is as closed as, say, Due South's -- after all, even knowing what happened in Call of the Wild, I never had the slightest problem with setting a story in some nebulous place in the middle of Season 3 and sending them all off after a different ending.

[zabira.livejournal.com]

well, i must say i am hoping that's true...cuz i'd love to see at least 'the project' finished even if it is totally jossed by the book.

[panisdead.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you posted these! Watching the story-in-transition is very interesting.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I so wish I'd been able to finish them. And I hope I'm not giving away more than I'm aware of by letting people see what they look like when they're abandoned like this ...

[jmchau.livejournal.com]

Thanks ever so for sharing

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Well, you're welcome, for what it's worth! I always say that no matter what happens to the story, I can never let a sex scene go to waste.

[giglet.livejournal.com]

I helped beta Icebreaker? I have no recollection of it, but it's hot like whoa!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I don't remember it, either, but I wrote a little note at the bottom of the draft with the names of all the people who had taken a crack at it, and I do mean crack.

The concept was really, really promising of great hotness. I wish I'd been able to finish it. I've never written an aphrodisiac/sex pollen/pon farr story, and I love them so.

[snpdiva.livejournal.com]

I know it's probably futile to ask, but I sure wish you'd finish "The Project". I think the concept is really wonderful, as is what you've written so far. Come on, this is the fan who printed out all of "Transfigurations" and had it bound. For me?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Believe me, I wish I could! It would really have made me happy to finish that, but I just wasn't able to do it. Sometimes they just die on me.