A Message from Green Pig about the delay of 'Chapter Seven – Blood Falls PART TWO':
*Is pulling all her hair out* ARRGHH!! I'm working on it! I'm working on it! But it is so hard! I've left writing this for so long I need to remind myself what's happened and what I was going to put in the next chapter!!! EEP! I feel so bad! I'm really, really sorry! I know I've been lazy with this fanfic, but I DO still love this!
I'm just finding it tough to get through this part of the story, because I never really thought about what happens BEFORE the really big evil/angsty/romance stuff comes in (hopefully by chapter 8!!), and it's just a struggle to crawl through all the really boring plot building beginning… ok, so it's not *totally* boring I mean, I have enjoyed what I've written so far and I'm quite proud of chapters 4 and 6 ^^ but enough of that, what's important right now is that you people need to know why I'm so slow at updating this fanfic…
OKAY, Unfortunately when I started writing this fanfic I had great hopes and dreams to write something so good it would be known and loved all over the net! *Brutally bludgeons head with spanner* Well, don't we all who start off writing fanfiction…? No…? Is it just me…? *Feels really stoopid* Oh well… V_V The point is, I had a great start, all the way up to the point where Draco got back to school, which is basically where the whole fanfic is based onwards… sooo that's when things started going wrong, or at least very complicated :S Firstly I DO KNOW what will happen eventually, let's just say I got the beginning, the end of the middle and near the end of the end worked out… does that make sense? There's just a gap where I am now where I'm patching things all up that has happened in the beginning chapters, i.e. tying up loose ends e.t.c and working out how I can connect what I have to the whole huge evil/angsty/romance part that I have completely worked out. It's all there, because I've been running through those scenes in my head for the past year whenever I got bored during class – like a portable private T.V in my brain I could sit back and watch again and again, ahh yes bliss, evil evilness running around in my brain… hehe…
OH YEAH, back to this message *ahem*, I don't want to make it seem as though I'm listing everything but I really need to get this out in the open or else you'll all hate me.
Right, reviews from a number of people disturb me now because they always make me feel so guilty rather than happy that they are enjoying my fanfic. Examples:
Riverchic1998
Great story. I hope that you go on! PLEASE?????????
Shrev
please continue!! this is really good!!!
Chia
Please update soon! I'm dieing to find out what happens next!
I'm getting more depressed when I think of this fanfic these days because updates are so far between I JUST FEEL SO GUILTY!! I'm having real trouble!!
I introduced new characters, like Cecelia and Darklis who did have a huge part to play in the original idea for the fanfic, but as I've gone and changed so much of what happens in the later chapters their roles have er, been considerably lightened. To be honest I forgot about them *hides head in shame* BUT I have gone over the plot AGAIN and they are being brought back in at some point (psst chapter 8! O.o). Mort Reapher just popped into my head as I was writing chapter 5, I was just trying to create a name for the new DADA teacher and he is what I came up with…
This year it was a fierce looking old man with flaming red hair and very sharp green eyes, he walked with a limp and a cane and his name was Professor Reapher. It had been made quite clear when he arrived late last night that he was an ex-Auror and so well prepared to teach Defence against the Dark Arts.
HermioneFan
Mort Reapher ... Hmmm, clever name. Mort means death, doesn't it? And the Grim Reaper, I suppose. He reminds me a bit of Mad Eye - I think it's just the clunk.
Thank you HermioneFan, yes I think this was the best review I had in a LONG time, mainly because you said something other than: "THIS IS GOOD", not saying I don't like those kind of reviews, it's just nice when someone says a little more ^_~ Well, when I created him on that strange day, I suddenly had a rush of ideas and I really don't know why I made him sound so much like Moody, guess it was just something that happened, but he does have two legs ok, just walks with the aid of a cane.
I've got to say now that he really doesn't have much to do with the plot, to be honest and I'm going to say RIGHT NOW, Mort Reapher doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the plot. He's just someone, who has something…interesting to reveal at some point… *looks hesitant* I'm not telling though hehe…
So don't worry too much about Mort, he'll just be there hanging around as another teacher.
Oh darn now you're all probably angry with me because that was kinda revealing something big wasn't it? Oh well, sue me, I said it now, it's my fanfic I can tell anyone whatever I want about it!
ANYWAY, basically I'm trying to say that I've put in a lot of little things that I planned to do something big with later, but I forgot about them *pulls out spanner again*, and so I'm having a hard time getting all these little details together again AND I've even had to start writing long chapter step-by-step plans for upcoming chapters that incorporate all these little things… so there's a lot of work I need to do to wrap it all up as nicely as possible without it all sounding rushed and disjointed.
WELL, to finish off, 'Chapter Seven – Blood Falls Part Two' is currently being written and I shall continue with it first thing tomorrow morning because I don't have the patience for it tonight (long talk with Dumbledore = S L O W)… At the end of Chapter 7 (which shall be a return to chapter lengths such as chapter 4/5 because I'm sure the last two chapters were too short for you), the action will start I PROMISE. The weird stuff starts to happen and hopefully I'll make some people cry out with fear and SHOCK because something very big will happen… hehehe, that is, unless I find that chapter 7 is already far too long to include that planned ending, in which case it will run into chapter 8 and what I have planned for chapter 8 will probably run into chapter 9 which I HAVEN'T planned yet…
I'm sorry, now I'm rambling on and you're probably really bored of me now, I'm sorry about thee being no updated chapter but I AM WORKING ON IT and hopefully I'll get it posted by next week ^^
Don't hesitate to email if you want to help be a beta reader for me or if you're just too impatient to wait to find out what happens, if you're nice and persistent on msn I might just let a few things slip… I'm easily persuaded…
~Green Pig ~PROUD~ Hufflepuff