Ravenclaw_scientist Posted June 30, 2020 Posted June 30, 2020 Hello join me on my quest to actually finish a fanfic novel. Fic is here+ with a few chapters up already and I will be posting around once a week on there. My aim is to write about 30K words, which should be doable as my fic is mapped out. Link to my nano page is here+ (M) What's it about? It's an adventure/drama set in my next-gen protagonists seventh year. There are weird things going on at Hogwarts and home alike. James Sirius is being insufferable in figuring out what happened to his little brother the year before and Albus Severus has a personal crisis of his own. It's turning out to be a more beast than I expected but I want to do it justice so Nano it is! Description: If the truth has been forbidden, we're going to have to break some rules. Amelia Parkinson seemed like a typical Ravenclaw but ever since Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy have gotten family friend Theodore Nott arrested, the press have all over the idea of a secret pure-blood society known as The Sacred Twenty-Eight. With tension building once again within the Wizarding community and strange messages appearing all over Hogwarts, an unlikely group of inter-house Hogwarts students must act to protect their families, save Theodore Nott from life in Azkaban and find out if Delphini really is a Riddle. After all, they all have their NEWTs to pass in peace. A mixture of news articles and narrative, lots of gay teenagers, Ravenclaw feelings and underage drinking. Goals I want to average 1000 words a day but really have a point in the story in my head that I want to get to. This point is a tipping point that I need to get to in order to push to the end.
Ravenclaw_scientist Posted June 30, 2020 Author Posted June 30, 2020 I made a moodboard because I've been procrastinating on writing. There will be no more time for this now!
sibilant Posted July 2, 2020 Posted July 2, 2020 hey maia!! I'm so excited about this story, and if you ever want to talk about how to destroy wizarding caste, I'm here I have a few questions for you! can you tell us a little bit about Amelia Parkinson? I'm especially interested in the fact that she comes from the Parkinson family but is a Ravenclaw and not a Slytherin (#ClawPride ). are there any other main characters, other than Amelia? can you tell us a little bit about them? Sure seems like there's a lot going on in the story--how are you planning on handling all the subplots? what inspired you to write this story? what is the relationship between james and albus like? good luck!! I'm cheering you on
Ravenclaw_scientist Posted July 2, 2020 Author Posted July 2, 2020 1 hour ago, sibilant said: hey maia!! I'm so excited about this story, and if you ever want to talk about how to destroy wizarding caste, I'm here I have a few questions for you! can you tell us a little bit about Amelia Parkinson? I'm especially interested in the fact that she comes from the Parkinson family but is a Ravenclaw and not a Slytherin (#ClawPride ). are there any other main characters, other than Amelia? can you tell us a little bit about them? Sure seems like there's a lot going on in the story--how are you planning on handling all the subplots? what inspired you to write this story? what is the relationship between james and albus like? good luck!! I'm cheering you on Hey Shreya! Thank you so much for the questions. The wizarding caste system will not be destroyed by this fic but it will be explored and its flaws will be laid out for all to see. Amelia is on a journey in this fic. She's incredibly naive and see's the best in everyone but doesn't think she is naive (yay to being 17). She feels a lot of pressure from her family to be a model student, be a perfect pretty girl and have the right sorts of friends and leans heavily on others (her friends, family and Sacred 28 friends) to make decisions. She's really good at potions and took herbology over DADA to have a career making potions which her mother was not happy about. She cares so much about getting good NEWTs and not always in a healthy way. She's a Ravenclaw because she takes pride in the fact that she's analytical and smart, even if she's not quite there with being analytical. The idea of the pureblood kids being sorted around the school is intentional so Amelia definitely could've been a Slytherin (more on this later in the fic). She really cares about her family's honour and has grown up having pure-blood ideals pumped into her at home but having nothing of that at school. During the fic she is constantly going to have these ideas challenged but it has definitely given her a sense of entitlement. We are going to get to know Morgan Flint and Cecile Avery very well. They're both Slytherin 7th years and very different to each other but inseparable. Morgan is Marcus Flints kid. The flints have loads and loads of kids and are pumping them out on purpose to rebuild the pure-blood class. Morgan has taken on these views but because of the way the world has been set up by Harry and co., her views are constantly challenged. However, if anyone messes with her family she will hex them so she's a lot of fun. Cecile is adorable and a ray of sunshine. Her parents haven't really pushed her into any kind of beliefs but she wants to please everyone so much that she's likely to follow them. She keeps Morgan and Amelia grounded. James Sirius is also very important. He's a quidditch jock but his attitudes have changed a lot in his final year, partially because he's trying to be a good brother to Albus and partially because everyone in Gryffindor is annoyed with him and he won't tell anyone why. I can't really say any more about why he's important without spoiling. Albus and Scorpius will also be very much involved. Albus is on an arch. James and Albus have a really complicated relationship. They've been distant for years but Albus has recently had a traumatic experience and is suffering from extreme anxiety at the start of the story. All of that has made James super protective and on the lookout for anything that could hurt him all the time. Albus honestly finds this a bit off putting but slowly learns to put up with him. Everything that's going on has to be happening for anything to make any sense in the end, so I've had to map the whole thing out with the key moments on paper before I started. They're all building up to a particular moment and it will be very clear once we get there if I've missed something massive so I really do need to get it right!
nott theodore Posted July 2, 2020 Posted July 2, 2020 Hi Maia! I need to catch up with this story but from what I've read so far it's brilliant, and I'm so excited about it! 1. What made you choose Amelia as the protagonist for the story? Which came first - your main character or your plot? 2. I love the way you're using epistolary devices to help tell this story! When you're writing, do you see them as separate to the main narrative or do you tend to shape your narrative around them more? 3. I know you're a CC fan - does this story fit in with the events of the play, or have you taken the next gen universe in a different direction? 4. What is one thing (it might be hard to limit it to just one, I understand :P) from canon that you're hoping to correct and/or actually explore with this story?
just.a.willow.tree Posted July 2, 2020 Posted July 2, 2020 Hi Maia! I love the concept of this story! 1. How would you describe the differences between the wizarding blood-type (? what is the official term for this ) conflicts between the First/Second Wizarding Wars and the tensions you're presenting in your story? Is it echoing a lot of similar talking points, or have things shifted slightly in the new generation? 2. The story seems to be Cursed Child-compliant! Are you planning on working in any details that you particularly like from Cursed Child? 3. Will the newspaper articles in your story be Rita Skeeter-esque, or slightly less biased? Good luck with your story! It sounds super interesting!
Archer Rose Posted July 3, 2020 Posted July 3, 2020 HEY PENPAL! your project sounds so interesting!! 1. you've gone for an action/adventure genre in the story, what attracted you to that style? 2. 'an unlikely group of inter-house Hogwarts students' - what influenced you to have such a mix of characters from different houses? 3. what aspects are you most excited about exploring in the story? 4. how did you come up with amelia's name? 5. whats your perfect writing environment?
Ravenclaw_scientist Posted July 6, 2020 Author Posted July 6, 2020 Thank you so much for all your questions! Please forgive the late replies, I've been trying to keep up with my writing but it's Monday now and time to procrastinate from work again! On 7/2/2020 at 5:36 PM, nott theodore said: 1. What made you choose Amelia as the protagonist for the story? Which came first - your main character or your plot? 2. I love the way you're using epistolary devices to help tell this story! When you're writing, do you see them as separate to the main narrative or do you tend to shape your narrative around them more? 3. I know you're a CC fan - does this story fit in with the events of the play, or have you taken the next gen universe in a different direction? 4. What is one thing (it might be hard to limit it to just one, I understand :P) from canon that you're hoping to correct and/or actually explore with this story? Hello! 1. I've had Millie in my head for a long time in a variety of universes, so she definitely came first. I loved her because she bridges the two sides of the wizarding world. The plot has been in the works for a long time too, but it's only really fully formed into what it is no w in the past few months. The corona situation had meant that I've been super critical of the news and I needed a safe space to write about it. 2. It's a mixture! Some of them are tone-setting and don't have a function in the main narrative other than giving the reader an idea of what people are reading at that time. I also want them to show the variety of news being spread from different publications. I have a whole one on Ravenclaw common room notices for example, which doesn't do anything for the plot other than being vaguely interesting and giving some background on timings. However there are some that are mentioned directly by the characters or are written in the narrative that the reader then gets to read in full separately. 3. It's essentially a CC sequel but I've totally changed up characteristics. If you're familiar with CC, you will know more about Albus and Scorpius than Amelia does at the start of the fic so you'll see the articles as truth or not-truth differently than somebody who isn't familiar with CC. You don't need to be familiar with CC to understand what's happening though as the characters have to learn about events during the first few chapters of the fic. 4. OMG one thing?! From a personal perspective, I want to make Hogwarts LGBT safe. But plot-wise I want to explore what happened to all the Slytherins after the war. On 7/2/2020 at 9:26 PM, just.a.willow.tree said: 1. How would you describe the differences between the wizarding blood-type (? what is the official term for this ) conflicts between the First/Second Wizarding Wars and the tensions you're presenting in your story? Is it echoing a lot of similar talking points, or have things shifted slightly in the new generation? 2. The story seems to be Cursed Child-compliant! Are you planning on working in any details that you particularly like from Cursed Child? 3. Will the newspaper articles in your story be Rita Skeeter-esque, or slightly less biased? Hi! 1. The way I would describe it is in terms of overt/covert racism in our world. During the wars, muggle-hating was overt but no it's underground and even the people participating in it aren't sure what they believe anymore (in terms of the Pansy/Blaise generation). Their kids are even more open and have been fed the idea that they're better than everyone else but to let others get on with it, just to marry pure and keep each other close. (Then more plot kicks in but spoilers). 2. Yes it is! I'm working in Slytherin!Albus and best friends!Albus and Scorpius. The way that Draco and Harry are chummy at the end of the play works well for my story because the pure-bloods feel super betrayed and it adds to the tension. 3. It's a real mixture but they're mostly biased. And mostly pro-Potter. On 7/3/2020 at 8:51 PM, Crimson Quill said: 1. you've gone for an action/adventure genre in the story, what attracted you to that style? 2. 'an unlikely group of inter-house Hogwarts students' - what influenced you to have such a mix of characters from different houses? 3. what aspects are you most excited about exploring in the story? 4. how did you come up with amelia's name? 5. whats your perfect writing environment? Hey! 1. I really want to use a lot of actual magic in this fic as I tend to just write kids doing muggle things and sometimes using magic. I want an adventure with duels and ancient runs and weird potions! 2. I think this comes from me analysing my friends from different houses and realising how important each house is to creating a group of functional humans. I wrote Amelia as a Ravenclaw because I feel Ravenclaw representation is always needed but it's important that the Slytherins are involved because of her blood-status. It is deliberate that the Sacred Twenty-Eight kids are all over different houses and they all think there's some foul play there. 3. I honestly can't wait to put them all in dangerous situations and I have some bombshells to drop that I'm so excited about. 4. Amelia means hard-working so I think it's a lovely name for a Ravenclaw. It is also thought to mean fertility and my S28 are obsessed with female baby-making machines so when I found that out I was set... I just like the name but typing it over and over again is making me curse it a bit by this point! 5. I wish I could be in a coffee shop writing this but my desk at home is serving me well so far! I like a little bit of noise.
Ravenclaw_scientist Posted July 8, 2020 Author Posted July 8, 2020 Just over a week in and I'm still on track in terms of word count! Today, I finally made the effort to write out what's going to be happening chapter-by-chapter (rather than this existing in my head) and I feel ready to tackle this. My plan is 16 chapters which (at the rate I'm writing ) is around 80,000 words so RIP me. I thought I would share some out of context (and totally out of order) snippets from my notes: Transfig: James being a bit annoying xxx/Millie break up More Delphi details Pansy is super shady xxx comes out to xxx Rune deciphering James get's very drunk Visit to trial xxx/xxx lots of kissing Potion brewing, duelling practice Slytherin dorm party
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