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[valis2]

Anyone who's reading tLS, could you drop by lastbloodwitch, read the profile page, and let me know what you think?

Seriously, I am the worst evah at writing summaries for my own stuff. Any suggestions, thoughts, anything would be appreciated.

And yes, I'm 3/4 done with the new chapter, and I've remembered that one thing that really needs to be in the chapter, so I can finish it finally, most likely tomorrow.

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[ishie]

Maybe you could include a brief excerpt? (I'd like to be more help, but I'm paralyzed by creating titles.)

In other news, YAY. You'll be updating through the comm?

[valis2.livejournal.com]

OOoh! Good idea! Thank you so much!

I have been really worried for some time about fanfictionnet; you're always just one complaint away from being pulled. So I want at least one place where I can just upload, you know, without waiting, or worrying...one place where I can just announce that it on the mailing list/personal LJ immediately, as soon as the "ink" has dried. ;)

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I've reworded the info page at lastbloodwitch; let me know what you think.

I did want to put an excerpt in, but it was getting so congested already that I was worried about overburdening it. :(

[aubrem.livejournal.com]

You might mention that the romance is between Snape and the OFC. It's not clear because you mention Harry in there. (or I'm misreading - am tired. : )

I would also talk a bit about the new kind of magic, that the thing is plotty as well as being a romance.

I'm excited about the coming update. You know something, I almost never reread but I have this sudden urge to reread tLS. : )

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Aha! Excellent suggestions, all of them! Hooray!

The funny thing is, I was really thinking that the next chapter was going to be kind of a "throwaway" chapter, you know, the usual background, plotty thing.

But I find that I think I'm very nearly done with background muck. Sarah's story really "cleared the air", in a way, and I find that I can move a bit more freely. I'm having a lot of fun with it, and I really hope to work on it a lot tomorrow, now that I have finally finished the EBAY OF DOOM stuff.

Oooh, you're tempted to reread? How lovely! I've been slooooowly cleaning up the older chapters, fixing a few canon errors, changing a few things in light of HBP, and, in general, toning down a few characters who were apparently not coming off well to many readers. I have the first twenty chapters done, and I plan on doing the next twenty in the next couple weeks. However, I want to get a new chapter finished and uploaded before I do anything else.

Any comments you have...feel free to review, drop me an email, etc. Anything that can improve my writing is dearly cherished, believe me. :) I need all the help I can get!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Okay, have revised lastbloodwitch, and hopefully it isn't too over the top.

If you have a chance, let me know what you think!

[snapesforte.livejournal.com]

So, do I have to join the community, or is watching all right?

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Watch, join, whatever you want.

I meant to make it a watcher-only comm, but obviously I screwed that up. Then I realized that it doesn't really matter that much, I suppose.

;)

[snapesforte.livejournal.com]

I'll watch in that case. ;-)

[mariannelee.livejournal.com]

Whoa, red. Which is appropriate, of course, but...red. Anyway, people will mostly be reading it through their own templates.

(I'm highly prejudiced against red because in the 4th grade I owned nothing but red socks.)

Otherwise, it looks great.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

It's so weird. The red turned me off at first, so I changed from the "so red" template to the "so black" template.

Yeah, there's just a little bit of black, it doesn't make sense to me either, but by that point I was sick of looking at template samples, and I just left it like that.

So you don't think the reviews are overkill? I'm cringing a little, because I feel like they're...just...too much or something, but honestly, I should really just learn to let go and let it be, I suppose.

[mariannelee.livejournal.com]

Actually, my only comment would be that it's way to long. Shorter summary, shorter comments. When I was writing search engine fill, they advised us that on the internet people don't read more than a couple of sentences per paragraph, and then start to skim. Short paragraphs are key to keeping the reader.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I will edit it down, then. Thanks for the tip!