Mission completed!

[donnaimmaculata]

It took me ages, but five minutes ago, I finally completed my challenge fic for the Severus Snape FQF! Considering the fact that it is a response to a three-word challenge and I wrote a total of 12,700 words or 60,200 characters, it makes me question the whole point of it. But there you go, stupid men didn't want to get off with each other sooner. They spent twenty pages preparing the ground and five pages shagging each other silly. Was this necessary, I wonder? And: I never knew I had this frightening affinity towards the whole animal-looks-on-thing. Frankly, it confuses me.

So the only tasks left before the fic is presentable are:

a) checking the German-English dictionary for words the English meaning of which I didn't know
b) checking the Thesaurus for synonyms of words I used more than five times each (slide, glide, shift, smooth (vb), ...)
c) getting rid of awful grammar mistakes
d) getting rid of awful redundancies
e) checking character and plot development
f) sending the fic off for betaing

All this preferably before next Thursday.

Comments

[babycakesin.livejournal.com]

*waves arms in the air* it's the weekend and a slow week, if you need beta reading feel free to ask/send me the file! It would be done quickly *g*

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much, hon! I'll gladly send you the story! However, I've only finished typing, and have to make the thing readable first, before I can inflict it upon you. Can't be done before Monday, unfortunately :-(

It's 26 pages long, some seven of which consist of very graphic NC-17 stuff. Hope you don't mind ;-)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

...stupid men didn't want to get off with each other sooner. They spent twenty pages preparing the ground and five pages shagging each other silly. Was this necessary, I wonder?

If you're asking if all that lead-up to the sex is necessary, for me the answer is: Please, please keep it in! Often times, I like the lead-up more than the act itself. All the denying their feelings for each other and all the glowering and all that... Mmm!

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

I know! I love a good lead-up, too. My question was rather rhethorical, but I was getting a bit exasperated during writing because I couldn't find a good transition from insults and assaults (Hey, it's Snape/Black!) to the actual act. I'll have to thoroughly check the development of their, for lack of a better word, relationship.

[lea-ndra.livejournal.com]

checking the German-English dictionary for words the English meaning of which I didn't know


machst du das auch? Englische Wörter benutzen, wo du nachher nochmal nachguckst ob du sie wohl richtig verwendet hast, weil du aus dem Satzzusammenhang entrissen nicht wüsstest was sie heissen?

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Auf jeden Fall! Ich benutze entweder Wörter, von denen ich vermute, dass sie das heißen, was ich ausdrücken möchte, oder ich belasse es gleich beim deutschen Wort und schaue es später nach. Das Ganze macht die Sachen natürlich viel aufwendiger, aber man lernt auch was dabei! Lernen durch Slashen. Sollte man in den Schulen einführen, würde die Erfolgsquote beim Fremdsprachenlernen um einiges vervielfachen.

[babycakesin.livejournal.com]

*glares* me? Mind NC-17? You've got to be kidding, right?

just send me the fic when you can, I'll BR it asap *g*

[lea-ndra.livejournal.com]

ja, allerdings!