Fang's Fawn
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since: 02-12-09, id: 1836175, Profile Updated: 08-04-11
Author has written 2 stories for Harry Potter.

About me: I'm 40-something, married, no kids (unless you count furkids), and I write advertising copy for a living. I love so many different books of so many different genres that I couldn’t name just a few, and if I started trying to name any I’d be going on forever. I hope to publish my own original stuff someday, and in the meantime I find fan fiction (along with my journal) a great way to practice honing my technique. I also have a blog about my recent cross-country move called Fresh Start (www dot shootingforthedawn dot blogspot dot com).

I got my moniker, Fang's Fawn, from a very minor character in a VERY wonderful book called Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart. If you haven't read it, do!

Fawn's Fanfiction Pet Peeves:

Authors who don't proofread. I'm talking about proofreading, not editing. I know it's a learning process, we all makes mistakes, and things fall through the cracks. I also know that fanfiction writing is recreational for most people (me included). But when I see a story with no caps, all caps, or misspellings that could have been caught by a spell checker, I feel like the author couldn't even do the bare minimum to give me an enjoyable reading experience. It's disrespectful, and also the reason why I always go back and fix any errors readers point out to me.

Chapters shorter than the time it takes to open them with a single click. There's short, and then there's one-paragraph-short. If you need to do a super-short chapter for stylistic reasons (as for a prologue or similar), don't release the tiny little chapter unless you have a longer one ready to release at the same time. Otherwise, you're just wasting your readers' time.

Authors who hold chapters "hostage" in exchange for a certain number of reviews. At best, this sounds whiny. At worst, it sounds arrogant. Either way, it always sounds self-gratuitous, and I solemnly swear to never, ever do this to my readers.

Summaries where the author says, "Better than it sounds" or "I suck at summaries." Word of advice: even if both those things are true, for Pete's sake don't say it! It's the literary equivalent of saying to a date, "I'm not good enough for you." It makes me want to say, "You know what? You're right." When I see stories with one of those two statements prefaced in the summary (or worse yet, both!), I don't bother to read it at all.


1. Tightrope » reviews
This story is a continuation of my story, "In Care Of." You'll need to read that first to understand how the characters got to where they are in this part of the tale.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 10 - Words: 38,978 - Reviews: 1089 - Updated: 1-20-12 - Published: 4-30-09 - Harry P. & Severus S.
2. In Care Of » reviews
During the summer before sixth year, Harry finds an injured bat in the garden and decides to try to heal it...and an unwilling Snape learns just what kind of a person Harry Potter really is. No slash. Part 2 continued in "Tightrope."
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Hurt/Comfort/Drama - Chapters: 16 - Words: 47,026 - Reviews: 1357 - Updated: 4-25-10 - Published: 3-16-09 - Severus S. & Harry P. - Complete
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