Mission completed!

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.

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Taking up the thread I posted 10 minutes ago: I'm also confused about why I'm seemingly unable to write nice, fluffy, comfy sex and instead force my characters (well, not my characters; JKR's characters) to endure situations I describe using phrases such as "awkward", and "somehow scary", and "vaguely uncomfortable", and "'Get off. I can't breathe.'" OK, I like realism. But does clumsy sex automatically imply realism?

(Memo to self: sketch draft for clumsy Tonks/Ginny slash) (Easy. Considering how unexperienced I am at writing femmeslash it can only turn out clumsy.)