Leafwood

Cast your cares on the Lord, and he will sustain you.

-Psalm 55:22

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy -- it's the occuring that's hard.

-Stephen Leacock

About Me

I'm Leafy. I'm a 17-year-old teenager who has either a little too much time or not enough. I spend my time reading and writing fanfiction and watching videos on YouTube. My main category is Harry Potter. I am currently writing a Snape-adopts-Harry fic which will probably take some time to complete.

I write at two speeds: slow and fast. Slow is when I have no idea how to get where I want to be. Fast is when my brain clicks and I write ten pages. I usually start slow and end fast.

I am not the best writer. People say my characters tend to be Mary-Sueish. But I say that any character has some Mary-Sue in them. I have taken the Mary-Sue test and am border-line. My writing is (hopefully) improving, so my characters will (hopefully) improve, as well.

If you don't like my story, it would be nice for you to review and tell me what you didn't like about it, so I can improve. Flames will be cast off and ignored. I don't care whether you like the story or not, you don't have to be rude about it.

I do not write lemon or slash. Period.

For those of you who want to know...my stories have some language. I am not talking hard-core cursing. I have a total of two words I use occasionally. They are the 'fire and brimstone' words - by this I mean damn and hell. I use these words because I believe that this is what the character would say at that time. A pissed-off Remus Lupin would say damn. No matter how much I wish he would, I do not think he would use 'darn'. It just doesn't have the same ring. I draw the line at the f-word and the sh-word. NO.

I am not British, so my slang is not perfect.

I write angst. It's not a lot of angst, but it's still angst. Mainly the angst that comes from child abuse. Yep, that's in them too.

Stories

Name: To Trust Again

Category: Harry Potter

Status: On Hiatus/Abandoned?

Coverage: Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire. May be AU either before or after Order of the Pheonix.

Genre: Mainly angst.

Chapters: 23 (Year 1 complete at 16, Year 2 in progress with 7)

Chapter Status: On Hiatus/Abandoned?

Original Characters: Yes. Main ones are: Samantha Nicole Keayne/Jarvis, Slytherin. Kayla Tregg, Slytherin. Amanda Sykes, Slytherin. Copper Anne Smith, Ravenclaw. Elizabeth Harper, Hufflepuff. No stealing.

Pairings: Don't show up until around Year 4 (Yule Ball, anyone?). Canon pairings. Sammy/somebody-I-can't-tell-you-because-it's-a-surprise. You can probably guess, though. Elizabeth/surprise. Kayla/surprise. Amanda/surprise. Copper Anne/surprise.

Rating: T

Warnings: slight child abuse in Chapter 1 and Chapter 13 or 14. Angst.

Notes: My first real fanfiction series. Year 1 is complete. Lots of rambling author notes where I beat myself up for non-originality. Also, slightly Mary-Sueish, but border-line. I don't really like the way I wrote Year 1...but it's over and done with now. Year 2 is in progress. I've been told it's better than Year 1, which makes me happy.

Sequels: Well, seeing as each story is a sequel of the previous one...yeah, guess I'm planning six sequels to Year 1. As for a sequel for the whole entire series, I'm not sure. Maybe. But that's a long way away.

Name: Forgiveness

Category: Harry Potter

Status: On Hiatus...sorry.

Coverage: Order of the Phoenix

Genre: Mainly angst, a touch of mystery

Chapters: 20

Chapter Status: Suspended indefinitely.

Original Characters: Yes. Main: Isabella Snape, Gryffindor. No stealing.

Pairings: Not really focusing on them...just the pairings in OotP and a little Snape/OC.

Rating: T

Warnings: Child abuse and angst

Notes: This story is my baby. It's a nice father/daughter bonding story, done slowly. Severus Snape is reunited with his daughter, Isabella, but there are repercussions. Mary-Sueish? Um, kind of.

Sequels: Since I'm not even remotely done with this story, there won't be a sequel anytime soon. But I am planning one, placed during the summer, involving Isabella, her neighbor, and a mystery surrounding them both. Also, I may do a cross-over between To Trust Again and Forgiveness...I just think it would be interesting. What would Sammy think of Isabella, and vice versa?

Name: Till Death Do Us Part

Category: Harry Potter

Status: Complete

Coverage: Half-Blood Prince, Deathly Hallows, post-DH

Genre: Romance and tragedy

Chapters: One-shot

Original Characters: Megan Snape, wife of Severus Snape.

Pairings: Snape/Megan

Rating: T, to be safe.

Warnings: Spoilers for Books 6-7, death, and possible tissue requirement.

Notes: I cried when I wrote this story. It's based on a plot bunny I have in my head of Snape marrying shortly after the events on Halloween, 1980.

Translation: This fic was translated into Russian, to my utmost delight. You can find it here: http://www.severushermione.clan.su/forum/6-1537-1

Sequels: Probably not. Possibly a prequel, though, because the prequel is my plot bunny.

Update 1.2.09:

Yes, Forgiveness is officially On Hiatus. My apologies to everybody who enjoyed that story. My interests have gone elsewhere, and I really feel that I could have done much better on it. I am rewriting it, much like TTA (which got lost when my old computer died), so maybe that will be up eventually. I want to thank everybody who enjoyed and reviewed Forgiveness and kept me writing it for so long.

That's the info. Sorry about the length.