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The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive :: Barely Legal Since 2000

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A Harry Potter fanfiction community

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The Basilisk Cafe - a place where intelligent Tom Riddle/Slytherin fans can share their fanfiction and fanart of our favourite Dark Lord with others of the Slytherin persuasion..

A Harry Potter fanfic archive featuring MWPP and Epilogue Kid stories.

The Parapet A site dedicated to the angsty and sexy) pairing of Severus Snape and Remus Lupin. Has Stories Art and more.

Proudly Flying the Flag of True Love Between the Ferret and the Girl Weasel

Its a list of all Snape/Harry stories we like. That includes the best stories those you would normally find recced) but also stories that are just "good." Those good stories might have flaws but someone who likes the pairing would enjoy them anyway.

Themed search: fics where religion plays a big part. See Page for More information. If you have any stories to add to the list let the author painless_j know.

Thematic list: slavery in HP fiction. See Page for More information. If you have any stories to add to the list let the author painless_j know.

Please note that most fics on this list are either dark or non-con or otherwise unsuitable for underage readers. Show the authors and me some respect and don't click on the links if you are a minor. Anyway tread cautiously and mind the warnings in the summaries and inside the fic files.

Thematic list - Defeat Voldie. This is a very spoilery list. Even the fact that a fic is put here may be a spoiler let alone the way of Voldemorts defeat which sometimes sells out the main plot twist. Be warned!

Thematic list - Vodemort possesses somebody's body. See Page for More information. If you have any stories to add to the list, let the author, painless_j, know.

Thematic list - "Voldemort won" scenario. See Page for More information. If you have any stories to add to the list, let the author, painless_j, know.

Themed list: Dark Lord Harry (Severus, Lucius, etc) See Page for More information. If you have any stories to add to the list, let the author, painless_j, know.

Description is one of those occasionally reviled writing skills. It gets a bad reputation from books that include pages of turgid, extraneous detail; no book has ever been rendered unreadable by virtue of too little description. Unpublishable, maybe, but not unreadable. Whereas a couple of hundred-word descriptions jammed into a three-page paragraph can not only kill your book, but maybe even your editor or first reader. Bad. So you don’t want to do that. But you don’t want to walk away from description entirely, either. It gives you powerful tools for bringing worlds and characters to life. Used judiciously, it can make your readers believe, and that is a wonderful thing. You have a number of things you’ll routinely have to describe in your writing -- settings, situations, and characters.

I am indebted to Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones, for what has become one of the staples of my own writing practice. Though I don't do timed writing quite the way she says most of the time, I still find it essential to cutting through the murkiness of my own mind when I'm stuck, and for sharpening images while I'm working on a book.
Here is timed writing my way. I prefer working at a keyboard to writing in longhand, so I almost always type my timed writings directly into the computer. If you don't like doing raw material at a keyboard, try it anyway for a while. You can always go to a notebook and pen when you're waiting at the dentist's office---timed writing is much more interesting than reading the June, 1974 issue of Field and Stream that he still has in there. (After you've read the Patrick F. McManus article, anyway.)

When you're writing in the third person, you're generally doing it in the past tense. Wagner ran to the store and picked up a carton of milk, three boxes of lime Jell-o, and a box of rat poison. And the issue of when the story is being told doesn't really come into play. It happened at some point in the past, and it involves Those People. Fine.

Writing in the first person and keeping track of story time is another kettle of fish, and one that, like the soup presented to me when I was a kid in Alaska once, contains things like eyeballs. And fish heads. It can get pretty messy.