Now, as for Severus/Hermione, I honestly have never read a Sev/Hermione in my entire fanfiction reading experience. It doesn't appeal to me personally. I can understand why a person would, but to me, I think of Snape in the same terms Harry and Ron do most of the time. He was courageous and he did a lot of great, balanced with a lot of bad. He's a wonderful and complicated character. But I won't ever write the ship. I also won't write Hermione/Tom, in his Riddle or Voldemort form. I understand the interest readers might have but it's not something I plan on taking on.
Now, I understand that there are a few very loyal and wonderful readers that might be disheartened by my decision, but I don't think I'm the writer you want to write those types of fics. There are plenty of other writers who I'm sure handle the ship with much more interest. I hope you'll accept this and not simply write me off. Some have said that to expand my writing abilities, I should write a little of something, even if I don't enjoy it, but I feel I've done that enough. I'm not a Harry/Ginny shipper in the least, but I've put them in stories. I'm not a Blaise/Ginny shipper, but I've written them as side couples too.
As far as my writing abilities go, I feel like I'm writing as best I can and with the ships that feed my interest enough to keep me going. So I'm afraid if you like Severus/Hermione, Lucius/Hermione, Any Death Eater/Hermione (with the exception of Regulus, Blaise or Draco), then you've come to the wrong place. But if you like Charlie, Bill, Sirius, James, Remus, Regulus, Teddy, Oliver, Fred, George, Harry, Draco, or Blaise, then you'll find them here. I like to dabble and I like to please, but I won't throw my creative flow off.
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Glad you're enjoying my stories. I was just at your LiveJournal, actually. lol Noticed my story "While You Were Gone" was on the WIP list you started but wished you'd waited until it was done. My computer problems may actually be worse than I thought and my stories may have all been deleted. I'll know in the next few days. If they are though, I'll just restart the next chapter to "WYWG." It's one of my best stories as of late and it's driving me nuts that I can't update it! :D
That said, I didn't understand SS/HG until I stumbled on one fic that totally hooked me forever. It's a deep and unrelenting ship. Watch out!
I've noticed there are TONS of SS/HG readers out there! It's a ship that really took in quite a lot of people. I've never been able to steer myself toward it though. All the luck to the ship though. I'm sure it'll continue to flourish!
Oooh.. I sense the posting of a oneshot. :D This is good. Post it soon, won't you? Don't worry, all your writings are brilliant. It'll be another good read.
Hey, on another note, I think you should write a memoir. One of how you started out writing HP fanfics and how you branch out into different ships and whatnot. I think that quite a number of people would be interested. :D Just a suggestion...
Yup! 'Nother one shot will be out soon. It has to go through Daniell (beta) first and then I'll have it posted. There's even a sequel to it! :D I'm half-done the sequel to Hard To Get (James/Hermione) and so it too will be posted soon!
Memoir... hmm... I'm definitely going to take that into consideration! :D
-dies- Another one shot, plus a sequel, plus another sequel to another fic. Ah, I love your fics.
But seriously, if you do decide to write your memoir, I'd pimp it for you. :D Lol.
:D Yeah, I've been on a bit of a writing spree. I'm having so much fun though. Regulus surprised me the most. I thought I'd have a lot of trouble writing him, but he came out so easily. James, too. I really loved writing James. He was very romantic and outspoken and just an all around fun character. Cedric gave me the worst trouble I think. Even now I sort of feel like His Bookworm is missing something. But, that's the way it is. This Oliver/Hermione one is quite good so far. The sequel to it is much steamier. Are you a smut reader or do you tend to lean away from it? For the longest time I didn't like writing love scenes in my stories because I had so many different ages to think about. Younger readers would tell me it was too graphic and older readers would tell me it wasn't graphic enough. It's hard to make everyone happy and so now I just make myself happy. lol
If I decide to write me memoir I'll be sure to let you know asap! :D
Yep, Cedric is the worst when it comes to writing. I tried it out once, but failed really badly. So I guess I'll stick to Dramione and Fremione. :D But I thought His Bookworm was pretty good.
Me.. I read smut when it comes about. Because some of those love scenes are just too badly written that it just seems weird. But if it's in your fic, I'd surely read it. :D That's what writing's about. Make yourself happy, don't worry too much about us. :D
I'm getting more into smut. Well, not exactly PWP. I honestly can't write it or even really read it unless it has some plot. My lovescenes are usually part of something bigger. Love proclomations or the turning event in a relationship, that sort of thing. It feels more complete that way. My favorite love scene that I've written so far is definitely in Angel. I think the chemistry between Regulus and Hermione came out so much more fluently than anything I've ever written. My beta loves more mature fics, which I appreciate, because my former beta was a close friend of mine and it felt weird knowing she was reading something I personally wrote that was so intimate, lol. Danielle is a great beta though, very encouraging and honest. So it helps. And I'm becoming more free as a writer, I think. More comfortable with what I write and how I write it. I'm not longer the girl who started out with BITTT where I had no real set plan for what I was writing and sort of bowed to whatever the readers wanted. Now I'm giving them the twists and turns and the romantic bliss as I see fit. And it feels so much better! :D
I really think I've evolved from that writer and I find a lot of my readers think so too. They've evolved with me. It's a great experience... I'll have to add this to my memoirs! :D
I've personally never read a Regulus/Hermione until Angel. I thought that you were great with that one. There is a certain flow to it that makes it really smooth. But then again, which of your fics don't possess the same characteristics? BITTT was one of the fics that got me hooked for a long time. I reread it whenever I have the time to. ;) But my favourites are still your Fred/Hermione fics. I love your characterisation of Fred.
Starting with "For You, Always For You" to "Forever Young", I think your writing skills have improved immensely. The style itself is already quite different, and the plots have gotten better. Like you said, with all the new twists and turns, the story is turning more and more interesting. I think, that itself, is already worth all the bad reviews, writer's block and commitments added together. :D
BITTT was my first really big undertaking. It actually wasn't supposed to be as long as it was, but things began developing and I loved writing thoes characters. I actually started writing it as an emotion reliever. Two of my close friends had died and I was in a bad place. Couldn't be left with my own thoughts. So I transferred it into writing and I really found a place there. I remember in the beginning, I was updating BITTT every four days.
My favorites as of late are my Fred/Hermione's too. His character is so fun and it really keeps everything lighthearted. He balances Hermione's personality quite well. No offense to Ron, but I think Hermione needed someone more on her level. And while the twins leaned more toward mischief, they did it brilliantly.
My former beta's favorite story, to this day, if For You, Always For You. I spent seventeen hours on that story over a two day period. I sat down one night and everything just spilled forward. Writing Draco as I did was such a fantastic release for me. By the time I finished it, I really felt like I'd done something incredible. It was the first time I wrote a character death and kept it as it was. No magical rebirth or anything and it was so hard. I became so connected to Draco writing it that when it was over, I really felt like he was gone. It was nuts, lol.
Thank you. I'm glad that others have felt the same. I'm so proud of how much my writing has really improved. It took years, though. A lot of work and a lot of scepticism on my part. It can be so hard putting a chapter out and awaiting the response, especially when just starting out. It's essentially putting a very raw part of yourself out and hoping you'll be accepted. It's wonderful when you get that acceptance but it's so hard when you get a reply that isn't favorable. A lot of people don't quite know that fanfiction can be a very serious undertaking. A lot of people might think it's easy and amature, but for a lot of writers, it's huge!
Oh it's definitely worth it! All of the bad stuff couldn't outweigh the great feeling of finishing something and putting it out there and getting even one great review that says you've done something for them. Made them smile, cry, just feel in general. So worth it! :D
Oh, I know what you mean about writing being an emotion reliever. I'm really sorry about your friends. My beta (who was also my best friend) passed away too last year. I started out that way too. Because I simply couldn't take the stress in school anymore and so I transfered it into writing. But BITTT was one of the few fics that had a good plot to it, paired up with good writings. I adore that fic. :D
Persistance Pays Off is my favourite Fred/Hermione fic of yours. It was light and humorous enough by itself, but then you added the twist to it. I was grinning all the way through the last few paragraphs. I think you managed Fred's characterisation pretty well. I find it hard to do so, but yours was brilliant. Up till this day, I still don't believe that JKR killed Fred! :)
Wow. 17 hours on a fic? My maximum was only 5 hours! And I wonder why your writing is so much better than mine... -rolls eyes- The commitment you put in your fic is astounding. I can't believe you actually did it! You're amazing, Amanda. Seriously so.
It's pretty hard to write death though, isn't it? I personally haven't been able to do it, especially on one of the main characters I'm writing about. Hint that a character dies, yes. Write it in a more vague way, yes. But I've never been able to write it out in a more...technical way.
Yes, huge. When you're just reading a fic, but not writing one yourself, you tend to think that it's easy on the writers. But when you do start your own... Everything doubles. The commitment, the stress, the thrill... It can be scary at times, but it's so thrilling. Especially the review part. We look forward to getting review, look forward to see what the people think about our fics and when you do get a review, it makes your day.
If it means something to you, all your fics are brilliant. The feeling is just there! A person can't possibly read your lighter fics without a smile tugging on their lips, or one of your angsty stuff without tearing up. It comes with it. The way you write everything is like you intensify the situation. It's brilliant. :D
I'm sorry for your loss as well. A few counsellors have told me that writing is a great reliever. It's supposed to get out the words you can't really say.
I love it when I find just one really great fic and it's enough for you to want to read it over and over. They're a rare find and I'm really happy knowing that BITTT was that for you.
I loved PPO, it was my first dabble in FHR and I just loved how Fred came out. Previously I'd written so much dark and angsty stuff that it was a real turnaround to write him. And he was so much fun. There was a bit of angst and uncertainty but he had such a great personality with it. :D When writing Fred, you sort of have to forget all about how every other character you've written has been. I channel him in my head. Kind of imagine how he'd react to things and try and put it in words. Like in Shamelessly, he was obviously upset that Hermione didn't appear to want to be with him, but he wasn't going to say it, he was just going to enjoy what she gave him and hope that he was enough for her to one day change her mind. I really think he'd be like that if he were honestly in love with her. Very lighthearted but he still has emotions.
OMG, when my friend (who was my best friend and beta but no longer is) read DH, she told me Fred died and I swear it took me all day to accept it. I fell asleep that night with tears in my eyes, as if he'd been alive and killed and I couldn't accept the idea. It was so sad. When she read me the passage, I actually cried. I was so upset. I knew someone had to die and it'd likely be a Weasley, but I couldn't believe she broke up the twins. I was appalled!
Yup, seventeen hours. Genius struck and I couldn't stop typing. OMG was I ever tired by the end though. I started at 5 in the afternoon, finishing at 12 the next day and that was only for the first chapter of FYAFY. Then when I woke up way later, I wrote the second half, sat back, and just went, "Wow." lol A lot of my readers have no idea how much time I put into these chapters. It generally takes me five to seven hours for every single chapter I write. Never anything less unless it's an abnormally short chapter.
My dad thinks I'm nuts, lol, so I'll be sure to let him know I'm actually amazing. I put a lot into it and I think that's what really makes it worth reading. Even when I had my former beta, I'd go over it twice before letting her read it. Then I'd go over it again after she read it, lol. I used to be able to recite chapters, it was nuts.
Oh man, it's so hard to write death. You get so connected with the character that killing them off almost feels real. When I wrote The Portrait, I literally cried through half of it. It was so hard. Like, I knew they'd die. That was the whole point of the story. But writing their death was phenomenally hard. Same with Survivor. I cried through that entire story. It was heartbreaking!
to be continued (because it's too long! LOL)
It's completely overwhelming. When I was writing "Growing," I had one reviewer that was so into the story they started PMing me like daily telling me that they were really upset with me because they wanted to read more and I wasn't giving them more to read. And I'd write back and politely explain that for me writing was like a gift and a great experience but her e-mails were making me feel like it was a job. ANd when it's a job, I don't have the same drive to write. So she didn't write for three days, and then she wrote again saying, "Okay, I gave you some time and there's still no update." I was like "GUH!" -slams head on table- lol
I wake up every morning to check my e-mail and I always have at least 10 or 20 reviews waiting to be read. And it's such a thrill to see and know. That people are out there and they loved it on a daily basis, enough to write constantly. It's a wonderful feeling.
It means a lot to me. When I first started out, you know I wanted to be this writer and now I'm here and it's incredible. Yes it's hard and often nervewracking, but it's still great. One of the most important things to me when it came to writing was getting the emotion right. I've read so many fics where it's just not there, not to the right degree. So I really put a lot into it to try and make sure readers smile or laugh or cry. You have no idea how much it means to know that I've accomplished that. It's heartswelling, really. :D
Hmm... Yes, writing a fic that makes you want to reread it all over again is hard, but I think that you've managed to do it really well. All of your fics have the certain "charm" to it. I have no idea how to describe it, but it's there. It's intriguing enough to make a person want to read it in the first place, and memorable enough for a person to reread it over again. I think that alone is a statement of how good a writer you are. Have you ever thought of writing your own book/novels outside of fan fiction?
Lol, the lightheartedness of your Fred fics was one of the reasons why I love your Fred/Hermione fics. Because I was actually convinced that (no offence, Amanda) you would have some flaws in your writing either here or there. No writer could escape writing flaws, right? You wrote angst all the time, so I thought that maybe you had a problem with fluff. But then you started on those and I was truly convinced that you're an all-rounder. You are good. One in a million, I would say. That paired up with your writing style totally pushed you high up in my favourite writer list.
Same here. I couldn't believe that JKR really killed him off. I had my bets on Percy, but never Fred. I mean sure, he was in the series mostly for comical relief, but kiling him off made me really sad. I had to take a break from reading to somewhat "mourn" him. He was my favourite Weasley throughout the whole series.
My dad thought I was nuts too when I first started writing fan fiction. I would squeal whenever I got a review. Lol. But I think they tend to overlook the work we put into our fics. Has your dad ever read anything by you before? If not, he really should. :D Maybe then he'll really know how amazing you are.
Death is hard to write, and very few writers can mange it well. I thought that you did quite well. Like in The Portrait. There was a certain poetic feeling to it, and it makes everything so...great. I couldn't believe that it was your first try at Sirius/Hermione at first, you know. I had to go back to your ff.net profile and check it all over again. Lol.
But seriously though, the way you write it fantastic. You make the readers related to everything that is happening and everyone involved in the fic. :D
But not with Sev... lol. Just doesn't work for me. :D
You were the one who introduced me to Fred/Hermione, and I now like Sirius/Hermione as well because of you. But that said, I love all of your fics.
I understand where you are coming from when you talk about people asking you to write certain ships, and not being able too. Just stick with what you feel comfortable writing.
I absolutely adore the next couple chapters of WYWG and I really can't wait to post them! I simply loved writing that story!
:D Well, I'm very glad to have made a Fred/Hermione and Sirius/Hermione shipper out of you! I love writing Fred. He's one of my very favorite characters over all. I took writing the Sirius/Hermione stories very seriously. I was quite worried I'd botch it. But when I was finished, I really felt like I'd accomplished something. He was a great character to work with! :D
Oh, I get so many PM's and reviews telling me that they want a certain ship. Death Eater/Hermione, Snape/Hermione, etc, and I don't want to be rude and tell them to stop and that I don't ship that or don't write it, but honestly I was getting quite tired of the same PM's over and over. "When are you going to write Sev/Hermione?" Well, I'm not. I understand why people enjoy it and I hold nothing against those ships. I simply can't get into them and therefore it would be pointless to try and write it.
Thanks for your support! You may be happy to know I should have a Oliver/Hermione one-shot coming out soon. And a sequel to Hard To Get (James/Hermione). :D
P.S. And oh, Oliver/Hermione one-shot and a sequel to Hard To Get!!!!! Can't wait:D
P.P.S. I'm going crazy about MJ. It's the best H/Hr I've ever read( with the exception of Survivor. Please tell me you will update it soon!
My Oliver/Hermione one-shot is now in with my beta, I expect it'll be out soon. I'm finishing up my Hard To Get sequel today and then it's off to my beta as well! :D
Mistaken Judgment surprised me with how many people seemed to take a liking to it. I hope to have a chapter out to it soon! :D
In fact, I love your writing style so much that I am attempting to do something like yours in my Charmed and Hannah Montana oneshots. It's incredibly hard not to get repetitive, though, so I admire your writing talent immensely.
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Its very good, you should give it a shot if you haven't already.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2948785/1/C
I myself am a fan of HGSS but, I love other Hermione ships as well. No need to have you write one. I know you may not like the pairing but, I found a fic that rather hooked me on the pairing.
You don't have to read it but, I thought if it ever got you curious you could read it.
The story is called: Stone Angels
I like many ships but,HGRL(SB sometimes), HGDM, and HGSS are my favorites.
Love your work and can't wait to see an update on Werewolf Tamer XD
From babyemzbackfromhell(Fanfiction.net) Bye