The End of His Spying

Character: Severus Snape, Death Eaters, Voldemort
Rating: PG
Warnings: Melodrama
Het, Slash or Gen: Gen
Description: Poem where Severus finally sees the end of his spying.

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La la la...LJ certainly is slow today.

Had a fun chat with pen_and_umbra, where she revealed her super-sekrit plans to take over the entire world using Ultra Devilish Saltwater Lockjaw Taffy. Once everyone's jaws were stuck together, you see, we'd all have to learn sign language, and then she could easily confound us all with her Scintillating Botoxilizer, making it seem as if all of our hand gestures meant "You need to have drastic cosmetic surgery. Now." and sending the entire world into anarchy, where she'd be the only sane voice left and we'd have to turn to her to stabilize the chaos.

We're on to you. Spread the word!

Oh, and you might want to avoid any taffy products with the word "Lockjaw" in the title.

Avoiding Mistakes in Fanfiction Writing: A Beginner's Guide.

I was thinking about writing one day while at work, and I started putting together a LJ entry in my head. My head being fairly leaky with information, I decided to write on a teeny scrap of paper instead and expound later.

I'm still expounding, and it's been three months, off and on, and at last count it reached 8800 words.

So here are my thoughts on the pitfalls of novice fanfiction writers. Being a novice fanfiction writer myself, and having made all of these mistakes and more, I feel fairly confident about prattling on about them. We're all here to improve, right?

( My longest LJ entry evah... )

We aren't paid for fanfiction. We write it and share it for the joy of it, for the feedback, for the chance to become better writers. I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I did writing it.

Special thanks to everyone on my flist who had to hear endlessly for three months about revisions, mortifyd for reading the rough draft, and ginarsnape for helpful suggestions.

For brave, brave privatemaladict...

The only fragment I have that is not part of the original story...I bring to you...the Earthmother, in all her Mary Sue glory.

(I wrote this when I was 14 or 15.)

( Prepare for Ludicrous Speed! )

The idea that a supreme being would need a couch to sit on in an elemental plane is quite amusing. The worst has to be her little Sue fit at the end. Ugh...this stings! Enjoy, privatemaladict.