Pre-beta to-do list:
• Write:
- Letter dream 1.
- Letter dream 2.
- Drunken cheers.
- Action Chapter.
• Rewrite first-draft artifacts:
- Christmas.
- "Adjoining rooms, lovely!"
• Spread the heroism out. Take away half of Hermione's brilliant discoveries and give them to someone else.
• Throughlines:
- Plot A
- Plot B (romance)
- Plot C
- Secondary relationship 1
- Secondary relationship 2
- Backstory relationship
• Spells, books, stores, names. Find the damned Latin dictionary!
• Secondary character voice read-through.
• Read through and remove:
- excess adverbs.
- excess italics.
- excess swearing; OOC muggle swearing by pureblood characters.
- excess use of names in direct address.
• Write:
- Letter dream 2.
- Drunken cheers.
- Action Chapter.
• Rewrite first-draft artifacts:
- Christmas.
- "Adjoining rooms, lovely!"
• Spread the heroism out. Take away half of Hermione's brilliant discoveries and give them to someone else.
• Throughlines:
- Plot A
- Plot B (romance)
- Plot C
- Secondary relationship 1
- Secondary relationship 2
- Backstory relationship
• Spells, books, stores, names. Find the damned Latin dictionary!
• Secondary character voice read-through.
• Read through and remove:
- excess adverbs.
- excess italics.
- excess swearing; OOC muggle swearing by pureblood characters.
- excess use of names in direct address.
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Date: 3/18/03 12:43 pm (UTC)And I love having a little peek into the process -- very interesting.