To do

[resonant]

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.

Comments

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

ooh, yay, yay. :-D

[gets in line]

[silviakundera.livejournal.com]

excess swearing; OOC muggle swearing by pureblood characters.

Certain ones are canon, though. In Book III we have Draco with --
"God, this place is going to the dogs," said Malfoy loudly. "That oaf
teaching classes, my father'll have a fit when I tell him

and Snape uses "damn" quite a lot.


also: I'm so excited to read this fiiiiiiiiic. *is anxious*

[mommybird.livejournal.com]

No! I want Hermione to keep all her brilliant discoveries! *g*

[beledibabe.livejournal.com]

Like everyone else, *very much* looking forward to this!

And I love having a little peek into the process -- very interesting.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

In Book III we have Draco with -- "God, this place is going to the dogs,"

Interesting. I didn't notice that. (I find it still sounds out of character to me when I imagine it in the mouth of my grown-up Draco, though.)

and Snape uses "damn" quite a lot.

[laughing] I hardly even consider "damn" to be swearing. My main first-draft swearing problem is the use of "fucking" as an all-purpose intensifier.

[giglet.livejournal.com]

Go Res Go!

also --

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

i have a copy of wheelock here if you can't find your latin dictionary.

[illiterate.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, what do you consider OOC muggle swearing by pureblood characters?
-shrug- Now I feel the need to go back and beta whatever it may be out of my writing. Heh.

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, new fic. ::drools::

I keep hearing about you *working* on it, and can't wait for it to actually be done. :-)

[julad.livejournal.com]

is laughing...

leave something for the actual betas to do, would ya?

(And yay for letter dreams and drunken cheers! CDs burned and wrapped but sadly have to wait for payday until postage occurs.)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I was nattering on about this here (http://resonant8.livejournal.com/5408.html) and here. (http://resonant8.livejournal.com/5977.html) Basically I don't find it very likely that a person who was raised among wizards would be using Muggle-style blasphemies (like "Oh, god, yes" or "Christ, that hurts" or whatever), but I find the all-purpose "Merlin" annoying, so I've been struggling to find alternatives.

Fortunately most of the important characters in "Transfigurations" are either Muggle-raised (Harry and Hermione) or polite sorts who don't do a lot of swearing (McGonagall and Lupin). So I'm not really struggling with anybody but Draco, but he's really putting me through the wringer.