BookDinosaur Posted October 27, 2020 Posted October 27, 2020 so, it's been a while!! as always, uni hits me hard this time of year, and I've written basically nothing from sep thru oct. through a lucky quirk of scheduling, though, my last exam for the semester is going to be on the 10th, so i'm going to have most of the month very free. i'm very much aiming to get back into the writing habit, with a stretchy goal of 30-40k ; we shall see how i go! no use for noble souls Quote four members of the first order, who love despite and because of a war. (title / banner quote from les mouches, by sartre) i started this project way back when i was still writing (july? yikes) with the intention of cracking it out as a oneshot (ha ha). it rapidly became apparent that it was going to spiral out of control, as my fics always seem to do, so i set it aside and have contented myself with simply thinking about it a lot. nano seems like a good time to get back to it! the conceit is simple : four members of the first order and their (too-)intense, more than platonic, maybe romantic mess of relationships. nothing brings people closer together than fighting a war, and nothing drives them apart quite like it either. a brief dramatis personae (anti-clockwise from the top of the picspam, for those following :P) - dorcas meadowes - quiet, private, seething. compartmentalising game a+ until it's not; her heart's too big to lock up entirely no matter how hard she tries marlene mckinnon - a good friend, a bad enemy. quick and clever and lovely or downright mean benjy fenwick - the oldest and the gentlest. had the most time out of hogwarts before joining a war effort, and sometimes it still shows. caradoc dearborn - remembers sometimes that he's supposed to be young. won't admit it but quite certain he'll die before voldemort all the waves resounded (lovely graphic by galadriel) Quote When he kisses her, she feels as though she could crumble, but the truth of the matter is that he is not her Perseus; perhaps there is no Perseus in this telling of the story. The First Wizarding War is raging around her, and Andromeda Black has turned traitor. well, i have been working on this forever much longer than i ever planned, and here it is again. to nobody's surprise, i am sure the standard goal has always been one chapter, ideally two, and i'd be satisfied to get that done this month! + others? look, i don't want to wander off track, but it may well happen, so i am including this little section in my conclusion as a catch-all safety measure. in particular, roses in december may well get a few words added to it; i'm not going to sue myself over this! thank you for reading this far, if you did, and feel free to leave comments or questions, if you have those. happy writing!
Darling_take_off_the_mask Posted October 29, 2020 Posted October 29, 2020 Yyyyyessssssss Emily! I love the title no use for noble souls! And I love the minor characters you’ve chosen, especially Benjy and Caradoc because I never see them as mains! What was your inspiration for this fic? How long do you think it will actually be? I’m all over your brief character profiles for each of them and love how descriptive they are! On 10/27/2020 at 11:06 AM, BookDinosaur said: caradoc dearborn - remembers sometimes that he's supposed to be young. won't admit it but quite certain he'll die before voldemort I need to know more about this??? Did your main characters have pre-existing relationships (of any sort) before their involvement in the First Order? And moar Tedromeda!
BookDinosaur Posted October 29, 2020 Author Posted October 29, 2020 Melanie!! so nice of you to drop by 13 hours ago, RonsGirlFriday said: What was your inspiration for this fic? How long do you think it will actually be? i'm sure i have many inspirations but now that the question has been asked i am blanking, which is very me. i read & enjoy so much marauders-at-war fic, but when it comes to writing i love the flexibility of rarer characters, that's probably the main thing. as for length - i'm notoriously terrible at estimating, i really don't know. i'm hopeful that it caps out around 30k, i am certain that now i've said this it will not? this also depends on how deep into the war i want to go, aka: how much do i want to hurt myself and everyone around me 14 hours ago, RonsGirlFriday said: Did your main characters have pre-existing relationships (of any sort) before their involvement in the First Order? they did not! this is relatively important to my conception of these characters, that they only met because of the war, that all this shared horror and trauma is what's glued them together. would they still like each other in a normal world? probably not! these are the horrible little things i like to write about
Aphoride Posted October 29, 2020 Posted October 29, 2020 emmm omg, both of these sound so good! 1. you know how much i adore all the waves resounded. how much more of it is there to go? are the one-two chapters you're going to (with luck!) write this november the end?? 2. atwr involves various original order of the phoenix members - will there be any crossover between that and noble souls? are they set in the same universe or are they completely separate stories? 3. you have a real gift for writing mysterious, tense, tangled, romantic stories - noble souls sounds like so much more of the same but angstier and i'm so excited about it!! 4. if i'm remembering correctly, in canon, all four of the characters in noble souls die in the first war against voldemort. was this a conscious choice to have all four protagonists who die or was it just a happy coincidence? will we see all of the deaths in the story itself? 5. which of your four protagonists are you most excited to write? is there one who's surprised you so far, during planning or thinking or anything?
magemadi Posted October 29, 2020 Posted October 29, 2020 Em,, it’s so good to see you are hoping to get back into writing again with NaNo this month! I’ve been a fan of All the Waves Resounded for ages and if you get another chapter of that posted I *will* read it ASAP because your characterizations of Ted & Andromeda are just *chef’s kiss* perfect. I am VERY intrigued by your new First Wizarding War fic too because wow that summary and those character one-line descriptions make me all Where did you get the inspiration for this fic, and is it different compared to the AWR FWW fic? You’ve got quite a good grasp on your characters in general already it seems, so I just can’t wait to see what happens to them!
grumpy cat Posted October 30, 2020 Posted October 30, 2020 On 10/29/2020 at 6:00 PM, BookDinosaur said: would they still like each other in a normal world? probably not! these are the horrible little things i like to write about those are the horrible little things i loooooooooove to read about. this is all amazing, i want to readdddd it pls soon
BookDinosaur Posted October 31, 2020 Author Posted October 31, 2020 hello hello, thank you all for dropping by! On 10/30/2020 at 3:28 AM, Aphoride said: 1. you know how much i adore all the waves resounded. how much more of it is there to go? are the one-two chapters you're going to (with luck!) write this november the end?? 2. atwr involves various original order of the phoenix members - will there be any crossover between that and noble souls? are they set in the same universe or are they completely separate stories? 3. you have a real gift for writing mysterious, tense, tangled, romantic stories - noble souls sounds like so much more of the same but angstier and i'm so excited about it!! 4. if i'm remembering correctly, in canon, all four of the characters in noble souls die in the first war against voldemort. was this a conscious choice to have all four protagonists who die or was it just a happy coincidence? will we see all of the deaths in the story itself? 5. which of your four protagonists are you most excited to write? is there one who's surprised you so far, during planning or thinking or anything? 1. the end does approach!! i don't think i'll be finishing it this nano but if all goes well i'll be coming close 2. ooh - i'll be honest, i'm not very crossover-focused and i have about one million tedromeda headcanons, so the thought hadn't even crossed my mind. if pushed i would probably slot it into the atwr-verse, but it takes place about 6/7 years later and in a different department, so sadly i don't anticipate any connection 3. 4. haha, you are remembering correctly, you would it was on purpose that i chose these four - even if i leave off before the end of the war / their lives, i do want there to be that vibe of Oh No hanging over it. because i'm horrible! my initial plans did stop before tragedy but i've increasingly been thinking about...adding more... maybe a very sad sequel 5. ooh, such a good question. i'm excited to write dorcas, i don't think i've written her brand of expansively resentful before and i kind of love her already? benjy's been the biggest surprise -- in the middle of a war and he's still so gentle ;-; On 10/30/2020 at 3:29 AM, magemadi said: Em,, it’s so good to see you are hoping to get back into writing again with NaNo this month! I’ve been a fan of All the Waves Resounded for ages and if you get another chapter of that posted I *will* read it ASAP because your characterizations of Ted & Andromeda are just *chef’s kiss* perfect. I am VERY intrigued by your new First Wizarding War fic too because wow that summary and those character one-line descriptions make me all Where did you get the inspiration for this fic, and is it different compared to the AWR FWW fic? You’ve got quite a good grasp on your characters in general already it seems, so I just can’t wait to see what happens to them! madi, thank you!! i am also keen to get writing on this fic -- i couldn't tell you what my main inspiration was beyond "more war drama hé hé", but as to your second question i think the main point of difference from AWR is how resentful these four are, and how codependent they end up being. i am super excited about this 16 hours ago, pirate grumpy cat said: those are the horrible little things i loooooooooove to read about. this is all amazing, i want to readdddd it pls soon thank youuu i shall try to oblige
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