Latest News:
The Yahoo!group has been closed due to the overwhelming lack of activity therein, chapter updates can be found at my LiveJournal (link below).
Chapter 20 of Time of the Turning is up!
In the works, as of 21/04:
-->Chapter 21 of Time
-->Bleed Black Part I, chapter 2
~DND
About Time of the Turning
I write for fun, not for profit, although I hope that this will change at some point in time.
My favourite characters of all time are Sirius, James, and Lily. In that order. I do not particularly adore Post-OotP Harry, and it only goes downhill from there, after reading the rest of the series. Which makes me glad I'm taking off after OotP. I hate Dumbledore, and shall endeavour to make him gay as a goose in Time... Heh, heh, heh.
At the moment, the WIP I'm working on almost exclusively is The Time of the Turning.
The fic in general:
WARNINGS: Sixth-year fic. OC's. AU, but it takes most of the canon storyline. Not really fast-paced. No shipping, romance and/or fluff. Canon ships and a wreck mentioned in passing. Genre is Action/Adventure, with a strong Angsty side, meaning there are no battles every five minutes. No Super!Harry. Sorry and all. Novel-length (bible-length, rather). War setting. Rating: Hard PG-13, leaning further towards R as it advances. The OC's are main characters, not! MarySues, or Harry's relatives, or any of that rot. They're essential to Time, so they'll continue figuring prominently. Voldemort: actually has a plan in here, and it's not merely an excuse to have Harry all angsted-up and bashed, or to get characters together and all that rot. There is a main plan and he's intent on carrying it out; everything will revolve around this particular point, not the other way round. Here the baddies are evil, the goodies make mistakes, and all (bar Moldiewarts and Nagini... and some others) are human. Deal with it.
On Harry: He's 15 going on 16, not 25. He's been through hell already, and it's all just about to get worse. He does not master wandless magic overnight, he forgets things and he is basically reacting to whatever is happening, because he simply doesn't know any better. He is only human, and as such can drag a grudge along for weeks. He shall not stop mourning Sirius and blaming himself for stuff just because it's been one chapter too many, either. This fic is about looting out the greatest depths and trying to carry on, and Harry will do just that.
On the trips to the backstory department: What can I say? Two letters: AU. This fic starts sometime in the 1970s, I'm just telling it mostly from Harry's PoV and from a different timeline.
Recommendation: Read if you enjoy the story. Forget canon guidelines, character prejudices and super!Harry expectations. If you don’t enjoy it, there’s always the back button. Ditch the fic if you will, but please, please refrain from telling me what to write. Constructive criticism and suggesting improvement is one thing, whingeing for Harry to do this or that is quite another, and flaming because Harry did not spit in Dumbledore’s face and walk away the way you would have liked him to is plain childish and will not get anyone very far. I'll laugh at it and carry on where I left off anyway. Chances are, he won’t do it. I know what’s coming, you do not. Keep that in mind, have some chocolate and be happy.
Other Fics:
Some random one-shots, but I'm struggling with getting time to write Time, so why push it?
LINKS
There's a LiveJournal community, still under construction which I'm currently setting up, which shall serve as an additional archive for all my fics.
http://community.livejournal.com/dnd_fics/
Otherwise, for updates, notices, information on the RPGs, and other random stuff, you can take a peek at my LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/users/wreckplunderer/
If you like reading non-ship fics, please check out the HMS Wreckage No Ships Archive C2 Community:
http://www.fanfiction.net/c2/871/3/0/1/
And for Independent Harry fics, the Independent Harry C2 Community:
http://www.fanfiction.net/c2/4751/3/0/1/
~DND
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