Soon.

I won't bore you with the details, but I began my third-year of college, complete with new apartment, in September, and that is where most of my time has gone.

But...those of you still out there reading have...shall we say...given me a nudge in the right direction...alright, more like a swift kick in the pants. :)

Enough is enough. Once I am done with the last chapter I was working on, I will update again. The story isn't really anywhere close to being done, but when I update, it ought to close another part of it....

Soon. For real this time. Soon.

-K

Fighting Stupidity with Creativity

Hey there everyone.

Just wanted to pop in to say now that I have found out about the new release date for the Half Blood Prince movie, I promise that I'm going to double my efforts on Everyday From Right Now.

Seeing as we won't get new HP material until 2009 now *insert furious mutterings at WB here* I'll be turning to my fic to rid me of the withdrawal- which in turn you will benefit from.

Now that I've got twice the motivation I had, give me a few more weeks to get a few more chapters written, and I'll be back with a vengeance.

Just hold on... unlike Warner Brothers, I won't make you wait an additional 8 months. :/


Catch you soon.

Twitterpated

So, if you look to your right, under my About Me section, you'll see a new feature I just added to the blog. (BTW, I'm trying out this new layout, how's it working?)
Under that new little section titled "What's Up With Me..." you will find up to the minute updates with...well...what's going on with me! lol.

I've been on Twitter for awhile now, and it just hit me that it would be perfect to use for letting you get in on the workings on my stories. So I revamped my account (which was seeing little love) and brought it here. I can now give you better predictions and progress reports without having to open up a new post for the blog. I usually think up random things at random times and it'll just be quicker.
And for another thing, now you can get a better idea of exactly what I'm doing in between bigger updates...in other words, I can prove to you I really am working! lol. ;D

For those of you with Twitter, feel free to follow me, it's an open setting. And before you get too excited, lol, don't refresh the page every minute hoping for something new. But a few times a week seems about right.

And before you give me a look that says "why-are-you-messing-with-Twitter-and-not-writing!?"....well...why not take a peak at what my Twitter says? :P

Ciao, belli!

My Summer Job

Hello everyone!
...And I can feel your accusing looks right through the computer screen. Ouch. :P

I'm back after my longer than planned hiatus. I know that for some, it's hardly justifiable, but over the past few months, I had to really ask myself what was most important to me, and make the according decisions. And my schooling is more than my obligatory priority, it is basically my job.

However, after two very intense quarters of college, it's summer time! Which means I can crack open my documents and start writing again.

Now, there's still a lot for me to try getting through, so don't expect any immediate miracles. But ideally, there should be some new material within the next month or so.

Your lasting patience won't go missed. I hope to come back with the same level I was producing before, just for you. :)

Hopefully, Hopefully soon

In regards to Everyday From Right Now:

No Promises.
No Schedule.
Many Apologizes.
Some horrible writer's block.
Another quarter where school MUST take priority.

...but I'm not stopping.
Break, hiatus, on-hold, postponement, whatever you want to call it, sure...but no abandonment.

I'm trying, planning, writing, and editing.
Its all just chapter-by-chapter, day-by-day now, seeing where I end up.

I haven't forgotten it, promise! ...soon...hopefully, hopefully soon....

Baby Steps...

Hey everyone.

Well, time for me to be straight up with you, as its usually been my style. My life falls into two categories these days. I'm either working hard or hardly working.

Simply stated I've been very much on top of my grades this school quarter and it does seem to be paying off, so I don't want to stop. ...that...and I am ridiculously lazy, catching up on sleep or winding down with some Guitar Hero on the weekends.

In terms of my writing: This has boded well for some one-shots, which are coming close to completion because I use them to procrastinate. ...But it has not boded well for the larger EFRN, because that story requires time and planning that I haven't been able to give it yet.

I'm hoping to get a one-shot up by Friday. I'm trying to get Chapter 19 of EFRN up by the first week of March. Both are before I have to start studying for finals.

And I say it all the time- and it makes it no less true: your constant support and encouragement never falls on deaf ears. I still hear you all loud and clear, and I am working very hard for you. If I wasn't, I wouldn't be writing at all...but that's not the case.

You stick with me, lol, and I'll stick with you. :)

Everyday From Right Now: Chapter 18

LINK: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3725509/18/

Credit goes to the six people who replied to my last blog post for their extra push for me to get this chapter completed and posted. :D

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Chapter 18: Commentary

-- Don’t ask me what caused me to do it…but I suddenly had to write Hagrid in for a little bit. In my mind, they had (of course) already talked to him, like at Fred’s funeral or the Hogwarts memorial, but it was all off screen because I didn’t really know what they could talk about. Somehow though, I thought it was fitting that it be Hagrid to tell them to mellow out over the Malfoy’s being there, seeing as that was something he had been doing a lot through the course of the series itself.

-- And for the record…I thought it was tricky enough to write out/spell the way Fleur speaks…Hagrid was freakin’ ridiculous. I definitely give Jo Rowling her credit on that bit of characterization, holy crap!

-- *sigh* Oh, Draco, you really were such an asshole. You should be glad that I gave Ron a chance to rant instead of just having him go over and punch you again. …or have any of the Weasley’s hex the crap outta you and your family.


-- *ahem* TEDDY LUPIN IS THE COOLEST BABY EVER! Especially that hair. XP


-- So…I have this feeling that some people won’t be pleased that I didn’t spend a lot of time describing Tonks’ and Lupin’s funeral. And I’ve got quite a few reasons for it:

First, following the tone of Book 7, Tonks and Lupin were killed not just suddenly…but very vaguely in the background. There’s lots of literary explanations for why I think Jo did this, but the one that pertains to my story is that I wanted to keep it in the background, not because it doesn’t matter as much, but because its not a crucial part to Harry’s story at all; its something that is crucial to Teddy, which is why I just wanted to focus on that little boy.

Which brings me to the second reason I skipped some details; I wanted to focus on their son. I wanted a big meeting between Harry and Teddy, but seeing as the funeral was right away, I had to work around it, hence the whispered talking and interaction with him.

And honestly…I wasn’t particularly moved by Tonks and Lupin’s deaths. Was I shocked and angry and sad and all that good emo stuff? Of course I was. But on the whole, and in the aftermath, the death that stuck with me from Book 7 was Fred’s. I know why Tonks and Lupin died – parallels, symbolism, motifs of loss, etc. - so I didn’t need closure on it. Of course I did what I could for those of you who did need it, but you’ll have to excuse me if you felt a bit cheated.


-- Now, for the impromptu scene of Draco and Harry talking. Apparently, upon doing her latest book tour readings, Jo was asked if Draco owed a life debt to Harry. She said no.

When I heard about this, it got me thinking…

I mean, in the epilogue of DH, they see Malfoy and Scorpius (HA) at Platform 9 ¾, and he at least had the decency to nod slightly over at them. This to me – back when first reading this anyway – meant that they do on occasion run into each other, particularly with them all at the Ministry. They were civil, which means that along the way, they must’ve let things go to the extent that they wouldn’t want to kill each other anymore.

Together, these small bits of info led me to believe that whether verbal or not, knowingly or not, things with Draco Malfoy in the past were let go in favor of moving on with life. I just chose to make it verbal in my fic, to try bringing in that element….

…and so no one would complain that Draco wasn’t in the story. …And because I’ve begun to really question the fics that suddenly make them all “LIKE OMG, BFFs!” now that the war is over. They’ll never befriend the Malfoy’s…they will however, deal with them.


-- Yes, that was a WHOLE truck-load of fluff in the ending. But, quite frankly, m’dears, I don’t give a damn!

Ron holding Teddy…no, holding any BABY?! Hermione brushing her fingers softly through the baby’s RED hair?! So much symbolism/foreshadowing of those two having their OWN red headed baby and kissing over a cradle one day?!!? Lots of warm, fuzzy, happy feelings that made me sigh happily and be fangirl-teary the whole chapter?!?!

C’mon. You know me, LOL. You should’ve expected that much, really. XD

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I’m officially off a set time schedule for when more chapters can come up, because so many are only half completed. And they’re half completed because of an intense quarter of class work. Post February 5th, I hope to start writing for EFRN again, and new chapters should be cropping up more frequently, hopefully by late Feb/early Mar. And while they haven’t made an appearance quite yet, I’m still planning on filling the void with some one-shots.

Thanks again to everyone for continuing to be so supportive. I wish I could give you all hugs…instead I’ll work really hard to get you more stories, deal? ;)