*bounces deliriously*

[dwgm]

I FINISHED Harry & the Pirate IV!!!!!!!! 61,000 words, too, and 20K in the last two weeks.

*does back flips*

BBL -- I'm going swimming and reading!!!!

Oh, and tomorrow I'm going to the French Festival, with our school librarian. Wine and goat cheese and wine will be had.

Life is good.

Comments

[trinityday.livejournal.com]

You know, the words "finished" and "Harry" are going together in a lot of my friends' entries today, but I don't think anyone else's finishes quite like yours.

Congratulations. I'm so envious of people who are able to write long, sustained stories/series.

[amy-leone.livejournal.com]

Branden and I are going, too! See you there ?

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Yeah! I would think so! Do you want a lift down there?

[amy-leone.livejournal.com]

Branden and I are leaving no later than nine. I don't know how late he means to stay, though, so I don't know if he'd want to carpool.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, it doesn't start until 11, so maybe not, then. See you there!

Nothing to do with anything...

[trinityday.livejournal.com]

...but I like your icon.

Re: Nothing to do with anything...

[amy-leone.livejournal.com]

Mine? Thanks. My middle name is Leone, which is where the lion part comes in. And then the wings were just cool. :)

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! (I was just checking the flist, which I've not done much of these last two weeks.) I really had no idea I had it in me to write long chaptered stories when I started Harry. It just goes to show you, you just never know where life will take you.

I expect the net is quiet due to the new HP book. I need to read all those, one of these days. I liked the movies, of course, and have all the books sitting on my bookshelf (except this new one).

Hope all is well with you--and good luck with revising your stories, if you end up doing that. I did it with the first three H&tP stories, with the help of the ever-patient tessabeth, and it was a real project, but I was very, very glad I did it.

[trinityday.livejournal.com]

You think the net is quiet? I'm convinced the world is quiet today.

...or maybe it's just that so much of my world is intertwined with HP, combined with the fact that it's the first overcast day we've had in awhile that's deceiving me into thinking as much.

Revisions, well they scare me. I'm horrible at them and usually put it off so long that sometimes I even give up on the story even though it's more or less written. (Actually, in those cases I usually give up the story because I realize that I probably shouldn't have been writing it and no amounts of revisions will help it.)

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Re: Revisions - you know, I've been thinking it would be fun to go back and revise some short story and write it from some other character's POV. That way, it would be the same story, but totally fresh writing. Would be a good exercise, I think. Maybe something like that would work for you, kind of get you going with it, so to speak.

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Sometimes telling a story from the POV of another object rather than person in the story can create some fascinating results, too. The funniest and most full of pathos story of the Three Little Pigs I ever read was told from the point of view of a piece of straw! By the end of that story I had totally identified with that straw and was grieved at its tragic fate. Wierd!

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Now that sounds really amusing!

Point of view is an interesting thing. When I first started writing, I didn't pay much attention, but the more I wrote the more I'd tend to do a scene from only one character's POV. In a way, I think that makes it easier to become emotionally involved with the story. It's an interesting, and complex, subject.

[trinityday.livejournal.com]

That's something to consider, for sure...

[cjk1701.livejournal.com]

Yay, congrats. :)

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Thanks!!

[porridgebird.livejournal.com]

Wow! That really is an accomplishment, congratulations!! Enjoy the wine and cheese and wine (hee)

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Oh, I mean to. And the Poodle Parade, too!

Thanks so much for the congrats!

[lj_stowaway]

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAY!

*kermit flail*

Oh, well done you!

You are an inspiration! Bet the euphoria doesn't wear off for awhile. What an accomplishment. woo hoooooo!

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

I am, indeed, feeling extremely euphoric! And as far as vacations go, writing 20K of Harry in that short a period was quite like visiting a foreign country. It was fun, and interesting, and completely absorbing, but I'm glad to be home now, for a while. ;)

And I sure owe my beta readers, big time, too.

How are you doing on yours? Any more for me to read yet?

[jenthegypsy.livejournal.com]

Congrats and huge hugs for the accomplished author and all around genius! Enjoy the pool, dear one, and the wine, while the rest of us prepare to drink in the wonder which you have given us....

Which is to say...

YIPPEEEE!!!

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Thanks! (Taking a break from the pool for a bit; will resume swimming/drinking/reading presently.) I hope you enjoy the final chapter -- I've sent it off around the world to my kind editors, and will post it tomorrow or Monday.

*does Snoopy dances*

[gryphons-lair.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Indeed! And thanks!

*collapses into pool with a sigh of relief*

[kahva.livejournal.com]

Chapter 14 is done?!?! {Runs around in a panic looking for it} I didn't get an author alert from FF.N, where is it?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Nope, not anxious about this one bit, nope nope nope nope nope nope........

Congrats, btw. :)

{Resumes running around in a panic to try and find the last chapter.}

[kahva.livejournal.com]

Well, it would be 16 on FF.N, but I think 14 with the way you've got it numbered here on LJ... {Continues to run around in a panic looking for it.}

Harry Potter who? Don't care, looking for the only Harry that counts in my book, the one who has Jack! :)

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess about half the world is very involved with that other Harry today! I'll have to read those books one of these days.

Thanks so much for the congrats (forgot to say that before). The last chapter will probably be posted on Monday -- or maybe tomorrow night, depending on how late I get home from zee French Festival.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

So sorry. I meant I finished the rough draft, and got it sent off to my editors. I already got one back (from hereswith), and I'll do the corrections tonight. I'd like to get at least one other edited one back before I post it, so it'll be tomorrow or Monday, probably.

[ballincollig.livejournal.com]

*waves Jolly Roger madly*
Hurray! What an amazing saga it has been!

Time for a(nother) sequel!! ;) :D

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Another! Ha! Not for a while, and probably not anything near that long. But a short story or two, eventually. I am very very glad you enjoyed the story, though.

Thanks so much for the flag waving and cheer. I feel like doing that myself!

I'll have the last chapter up on Monday night, probably.

[honorat.livejournal.com]

Tres magnifique! Congratualations. I look forward to reading your Harry! The other Harry will have to wait.

Enjoy your well-earned relaxation.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you're looking forward to reading, and hope very much that you enjoy it. The last chapter will be posted tomorrow or Monday.

[kaellana.livejournal.com]

In the words of the Navy: HUZZAH! Many congratulations! Can't wait to read it!

And by the by - 20k? In just t-t-two weeks?

*faints*

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

The last chapter should be posted by Monday evening. Thanks so much for the huzzah--it's much appreciated. :)

And by the by - 20k? In just t-t-two weeks?

Actually, I checked last night, and it was a little over 25K!

*faints, too*

[layah.livejournal.com]

Oh no, it's done? Every time I read a chapter I worried it was the last one, I don't want it to end! It's so much fun to read.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

It's fun to write, too, but I am quite elated to have it finished, and not keep my readers hanging for weeks anymore. I'll probably do a short story or two in the H&tP universe, so it won't be quite the end of it. There are too many fun things to do with all those characters.

So happy you've been enjoying it. The last chapter will be up shortly.