TSA1 posted!
Sep. 17th, 2003 12:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Finally. TSA1 (not to be confused with TSAp :D) has at last been completed. *senseless weeping* Have subbed to Schnoogle, but in the meantime you can read it at Portkey (here) or my Web site (here).
Please find somehow, some way, to let me know what you think. Review at an archive, drop a line at a messageboard, send me email, comment here, cut up magazines and send MacGyvered letters to my door, scribble a note onto a piece of notebook paper and throw it in my hair, roll up your feedback and put it in a bottle set to sea ... however you choose to do it, it will be greatly appreciated. :D To say that I'm a leeeeeettle nervous about the reaction to this chapter would be an understatement, since I know it can't possibly live up to whatever anticipation might have built up in this long wait between parts, but lay into me anyway. I'm an adult. I can take it. And if I can't, I'll take it anyway.
Please find somehow, some way, to let me know what you think. Review at an archive, drop a line at a messageboard, send me email, comment here, cut up magazines and send MacGyvered letters to my door, scribble a note onto a piece of notebook paper and throw it in my hair, roll up your feedback and put it in a bottle set to sea ... however you choose to do it, it will be greatly appreciated. :D To say that I'm a leeeeeettle nervous about the reaction to this chapter would be an understatement, since I know it can't possibly live up to whatever anticipation might have built up in this long wait between parts, but lay into me anyway. I'm an adult. I can take it. And if I can't, I'll take it anyway.
The Slow Autumn 1
Date: 2003-09-17 08:20 am (UTC)Thanks for updating. =)
Re: The Slow Autumn 1
Date: 2003-09-17 10:42 am (UTC)"Genevieve" was not introduced in the prologue; I only referred to her as "Ginny" there. I'm glad you like it; canon has never been explicit about what "Ginny" was short for (if it's in fact short for anything), so I wanted to use something different. I'm sure it's really "Virginia" or something. :D
More on The Slow Autumn 1
Date: 2003-09-17 07:41 pm (UTC)1) I should have mentioned this in my first post: You used "Hell & Bliss!" Rock on, my friend. Rock on. It fits so well, here, too.
2) Ron is ever-so-hormonal, and I love it. I love the part where Harry was like, well, like this: "She probably wouldn’t have resorted to violence if Ron had said it to Lavender, rather than to Lavender’s chest," said Harry mildly.. The characterization here is perfect. In canon, Ron generally has the louder humor, and Harry has the quiet, often sarcastic remarks that are just as funny. Which is exactly how you wrote several parts here, including a part about Harry being the son Molly's never had (Hah!). I loved it. Lovelovelove. In fact, I loveloveloved all of the humorous parts of this chapter.
3) I'm not entirely sure about Olivia and Jeremy yet; then again, I'm never entirely sure about Other Characters. I'm hoping (and assuming, knowing your wonderful writing skills) that Jeremy being a Slytherin will be worked into the story slightly more (more than him being like, what, the first Muggle-born Slytherin ever?).
4) I guess my biggest gripe is really sort of a minor point - there wasn't enough Draco/Ginny interaction. ;) Fine, fine, I get that tossing them together immediately is generally a bad plit point, (unless its smut, of course, and you're tossing them together into a room to shag, shag, and shag some more) but, you know. Looking forward to more in the next part, hopefully? Which will, again hopefully, be soon? :D
Thanks again for the update. I've been looking foward to this story for quite some time now!
Re: More on The Slow Autumn 1
Date: 2003-09-17 10:57 pm (UTC)2) It's always been said that it's harder to make people laugh than make them cry, so I'll take that compliment and run with it! :D I'm so glad you enjoyed Ron.
3) Oh, yes. <vbg>
4) There will be much more D/G interaction in the next chapter, but yes ... I plan to take it slow with this story. It's going to be my big "how Draco and Ginny get together"-type base, after all. Previous to this, all of my stories have them in established relationships, and I think that's partially because I think getting these two characters together would take a lot. So I kind of need to tell the big "how I see it happening" story, and TSA is it. But yes, hopefully the next part will be soonish. And by soonish I mean I certainly hope to take less time than I did for this chapter! :))