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On the Founding of Hogwarts
Aug. 29th, 2004 04:53 pmThose of you who have been hanging around this journal for a while will know that while I have on numerous occasions alluded to an epic novel-length founderfic that I fully intend to write, I never actually post any of it.
This is because I am a tease. Also, the slowest writer on earth. Also, prone to endless research and anxiety over perfection. Also, a lazy ho.
Nevertheless, I have been opening up all my old Word documents pertaining to it, and falling in love with it all over again. Love love love. I am at this point firmly convinced that my story is canon, or in fact, better than canon, all evidence to the contrary nevertheless. (I figure that this is a harmless belief, since it all ends the same anyway.) I have been taking deep breaths, making up bits as I go along, and working towards actually finishing, say, the first chapter, which may be published some time this year. (You think I'm joking.) It even has a working title: The Wyrm in the Castle. (*ducks*)
What I do have for you right this very minute are the notes I scribbled down about my premise for the story, which was partially born of an attempt to reconcile Rowling's selection of a date for the founding of Hogwarts (c. 1000) with the total absence of any actual historical impetus for such. My notes, naturally enough, took the form of a sort pseudo-encyclopedia article, which you may wish to read, and possibly kick around. Nothing is really set in stone at this point, considering I've written ... like ... a thousand words so far.
( On the Founding of Hogwarts by Mayhap aged 20 and a half )
This is because I am a tease. Also, the slowest writer on earth. Also, prone to endless research and anxiety over perfection. Also, a lazy ho.
Nevertheless, I have been opening up all my old Word documents pertaining to it, and falling in love with it all over again. Love love love. I am at this point firmly convinced that my story is canon, or in fact, better than canon, all evidence to the contrary nevertheless. (I figure that this is a harmless belief, since it all ends the same anyway.) I have been taking deep breaths, making up bits as I go along, and working towards actually finishing, say, the first chapter, which may be published some time this year. (You think I'm joking.) It even has a working title: The Wyrm in the Castle. (*ducks*)
What I do have for you right this very minute are the notes I scribbled down about my premise for the story, which was partially born of an attempt to reconcile Rowling's selection of a date for the founding of Hogwarts (c. 1000) with the total absence of any actual historical impetus for such. My notes, naturally enough, took the form of a sort pseudo-encyclopedia article, which you may wish to read, and possibly kick around. Nothing is really set in stone at this point, considering I've written ... like ... a thousand words so far.
( On the Founding of Hogwarts by Mayhap aged 20 and a half )
