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Story Title: The Ravenclaw House Snowball Fight Pen name: Lost_Robin Fandom: Harry Potter Link and Rating: Link (Rated G) Advisory: None Genre: Fluff Posted on: AO3 Complete or WIP: Complete (One-Shot) Summary: Ravenclaw House takes advantage of the weather to enjoy some snowy warfare. Written for FFT's Winter Writing Challenge.

Entry: The Ravenclaw House Snowball Fight

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Chapter 6 of Johnny’s Girl, Someone Ought To

Hi Di! Thank you for the questions. 1. Hmm. For fanfic, I never gave up on The Dragon Keeper, which I had bits written of since around 2010 and finally wrote in 2024. I’m really proud of that one. I had a hard time with that one with the original storyline I’d thought up for it, it just never felt like something I wanted to write much of back then. I thought about it many times over the years and finally came back to it because I was walking in to work one day in December 2023, thinking about the story, and it literally stopped me in my tracks when it hit me where I was going wrong that the plot had never been right, and I knew how I wanted to write it. Then I couldn’t help but write it. 2. I think it’s that it’s more important to tell a story you want to read than trying to hit metrics of popular tropes or ships. I re-read my novel lengths because they are stories I genuinely wanted to read, and nobody else had written them so I did. I think as a reader you can tell when the author is writing something that makes them happy, something they enjoy, characters they love. 3.  No, not really speaking to me. I do envision full-on scenes of dialogue between characters fairly frequently. Sometimes I manage to write it down before I forget details. I do tend to think of my characters as living in my head when I’m writing them (and in fact, when I feel like they moved out of my head is when I know I told their story correctly), but not in a talking to me way. I don’t know that I really want to have a chat? I don’t tend to think of them that way, I’m not much for the self-insert fantasies I suppose. 4. Oh dang! I would for sure keep and use the document, cause I write best in digital form. My current method, cause I’m a commie Apple user, is that I keep the working documents for my WIPs on my iCloud so I can read/write in them in either my phone, my iPad, or my MacBook. Makes it very easy. Then I save local copies to my MacBook’s hard drive regularly. I would give away the typewriter- I make too many on the fly changes when I write to use one of those without getting annoyed. I do love to buy blank notebooks and never use them 😆 so that’ll be the keep and forget about it. 5. I’m not sure what the difference is between writer’s block and slump. Like getting into an endless loop of reading and making minor edits on what you’ve already written? Cause I do that all the time. Sometimes just opening up my laptop instead of my iPad to try to write makes a difference, or a new change of venue to write in. Sometimes I attend “Shut Up & Write!” sessions locally, which is basically a write-in, and that usually helps. 6. Ha, well Johnny is a kid so he’s doing what his family does, and he’s one of 8 children and part of the extended Weasley clan, so he’s off running around with cousins and talking shit in the grand tradition of Cousin Walks at holidays, eating too much food, wishing he had better presents, the usual 16 year old things. Evander Jinks is decidedly a non-traditional guy, and would go to his dads’ house. They being fabulous Artistic Fashionable Gay Husbands have fantastic Christmases with wine parties and dinners. Evander and Lily would definitely go visit them in the evenings after spending the morning with the more chaotic Potter-Weasley clan. 7. I do love Christmas, although it’s less fun now my kids are older and totally disinterested in it (aside from candy in their stockings and getting some new Lego sets). I love Christmas music and cookies. I love time off work haha. My favorite winter thing is snowy days that get me paid days off work. This past week a snowstorm power outage cause a catastrophic failure of our city’s water treatment plant, and there was no or low water at my office from Monday through Friday morning, which means I was off work the entire week (also had no water at my house Tuesday to Thursday) and got paid to be a lazy bum watching tv. 8. Oh I love playlists! My kids roll their eyes at me cause I give my Spotify playlists silly names like “Chronically Online”, “It Was The 70s, Man”, “Random Shit I Keep Listening To”, “Driving Concert Starring Me”, “Am I a Swiftie cause I like this” (that one is up to five hours of TS songs so I think we can safely say the answer is yes). My big ones on my “Christmas Vibing” playlist would be: Caro Emerald and Brook Benton “You’re all I want for Christmas” Jamie Callum “Hang your lights” Paula Fuga “Mele Kalikimaka” Danielle Apicella “Somebody else for Christmas” Kylie Minogue and Iggy Pop “Christmas wrapping” and an honorable mention of non-Christmas holiday fun to Daveed Diggs “Puppy for Hanukkah” 9. I really, really love Kate Winslet’s character in “The Holiday”, which I know is arguably not a Christmas movie, but I otherwise dislike all your usually Christmas movies so choices are limited. I like that she did the hard thing to change her life when she wasn’t happy with it any more. 10. Saturnalia! I don’t celebrate it, I just do a Christmas/Yule/Solstice blend cause I grew up Christian and am now a secular humanist pagan. But Saturnalia sounds fun.