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Post by Jaquellene Jack Dyllan Thu Jul 08, 2010 6:09 am

I've recently gotten more into writing and publishing fanfics. I've been writing them for awhile, though they have mysteriously disappeared from my computer. I think this is the right place...right???

Shards is a fanfiction where Severus and Lily decide to meet up after their last year of Hogwarts. Severus is trying to muster up the courage to tell Lily something, but it seems Lily has more to say.

Jumper occurs when Luna is waltzing along carefree, until she runs into Draco Malfoy, who has just about had enough with everything.

An Unlikely Acquaintance is just that. Draco is putting his son on the Hogwarts Ecpress and he makes a silly mistake. (I know that it is spelled incorrectly on the fanfic, sorry)

Please, I would love reviews! Either here, PM, on the site, I am not picky! Thanks!
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Post by Caelani Bittel Thu Jul 08, 2010 9:10 am

I can't say I read all of them, but from the browsing I did, the last one seems vastly superior to the first. I'd just suggest maybe watching some British TV to hear how British people speak and that way you could try to make the language seem more genuine in your writing. For someone with English roots, it's occasionally jarring to read Draco thinking of his friends as "buddies" and so forth. It also doesn't sit with his socio-economic status, because Britain has a very entrenched class system, and someone as well off as Draco probably wouldn't really have been brought up to use language that familiar.

Also, either Crabbe or Goyle was killed in the Fiendfyre during the battle of Hogwarts, so you'd hope Draco would be seeing more of Neville than whichever one of them it was.

Finally, I'd have to say I think your fic had potential, but nothing really happened in it. You know how you write a story with a beginning, a middle and an end? Well, reading that story, I felt like there was no middle. I kept waiting for something climactic to happen, or for Draco to do something interesting, but really, it was just like the beginning blended into the end. It left me thinking there might be another chapter.
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Post by Jaquellene Jack Dyllan Thu Jul 08, 2010 9:55 pm

Okay, well thank you for the advice. All the reviews I get are always 'I liked it' and I'm always hoping for some criticism or something to work with so thanks.

I totally forgot about Crabbe dying, so thank you for bringing that up. And yes, I realized that there wasn't a middle and I was sort of unhappy with it myself but I published it anyways...not sure why. Haha.

So thank you very much. I'll be watching more British shows like you suggested and thank you so much for your honesty!
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Post by Elijah Krum Thu Aug 26, 2010 4:09 pm

I like them, I must say! (-: I don't read one shots that often. I dislike them immensely but these were really good. I am with Caelani, though. Try and watch some British TV. I'd start with some really trashy ones and then work up from there to the more ... classy ... ones. British TV is rubbish but it'll help to get a feel of the language. Another thing you could try is Caution 2.0. They have a few threads full of British Lingo and such. They're lacking a bit but they're good all the same. I think I preferred the last one over the rest but Jumper was close. I am wondering what happened to the site with Shards because the coding is a bit flyaway. No matter though! They're all good stories, excellent one-shots and I think Caelani is slightly wrong about the plot matter. Most one-shots are like branches off of a tree, depicting one scene with little or no plot direction just something taken from the original. There are some stand alone one shots but they usually follow the same sort of line unless you've got AU ships then they'll no doubt have a plot. I shall stress this now -- I LIKE THEM AND I WANT TO SEE MORE. Because I'm greedy like that Very Happy
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Post by Jaquellene Jack Dyllan Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:27 pm

Hahaha, thanks Eli for the support and the advice. This site has also been helping me adapt a bit too; these were written quite awhile ago.

Just because I like to brag... Jumper actually just recently got a spotlight-ed award thingy on mugglenet interactive... I was proud because it was the first one I had ever entered into a contest.

Anyway, I haven't been writing fanfictions yet, but I hope to be writing a Quirrel one soon, (AVPM inspired me) unless any of you have suggestions or anything. I do prefer one shots, mostly because of the reasons Eli stated =D so I hope I'll have some soon. Thanks SO much for the support!
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Post by Caelani Bittel Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:09 am

Eli, you're obviously not watching the right programs.

Jack, you can try doing some drabbles, that's when you write a piece that's exactly 100 (or 150 or 200) words long, not one word over or under. It's really hard. And you could look up some other types of writing exercises. I like doing this one about someone walking out of a house. It's really good for character building.
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Post by Chastity Moor Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:10 am

Ohhh Jack! I read Shards.. it made me cry!! I loves Severus... v.v he had such a tragic life, and all he loved was Lily, until the day he died... it was very sad. Keep up the good work!
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