Author's notes for Febuary, 2004:
Ah... I'll bet you all thought I forgot about you, hm!
This edited version of 'Bright Soul' has not, yet, changed as much as I thought it would through the first 13 chapters. However, from this point on, it will, as in the original (ooh, spoiler for the new version), Snape ends up coming back to Hogwarts immediately, while in this one, he will not.
If any of you following this one have also taken a gander at the unedited version over at geocities (or read these chapters in their original form, back in June 2003), do let me know what difference, if any, you feel the omission of OC's has been making in this edited copy. Also, whether or not the chapters are more 'jumpy' or 'jarring' now, as mostly they've only had parts hacked out of them, rather than concrete additions to smooth the story over.
For of those of you waiting so patiently for Chapter 36 at geocities... it's coming. I promise. The first of the people allowed to pre-read it have only just finished the whole thing last night, and once I get a chance to discuss some of it with them, I'll be posting it to geocities.
Christ Almighty Himself, I'd forgotten how annoying ff.net's format and upload system is! ARGH!
And does anyone have any idea WHY my disclaimers page keeps disappearing from ff.net? I upload it, come back in a week or two, and it's gone, and Chapter 1 is the prologue again, instead of the disclaimers.
That's all for now...
-beckett