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Kinsfire Site Owner
Joined: 01 Nov 2001 Posts: 380 Location: Roselle, NJ
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:11 am Post subject: |
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Glad to be back - got busy with writing and other things, and then just sort of faded away...
Luckily I have friends like our own Old Gray Raccoon, who reached out, grabbed me by the ear, and dragged me back here.
I'm sorry about not making it to the wedding - the invite chose the day of the wedding to actually arrive... Hope it was as beautiful as you deserve. _________________ That which does not kill me probably hurt like a sonuvabitch. |
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Rava Purr-Fox Princess Of PR
Joined: 26 Jun 2004 Posts: 154 Location: With Josh Fox
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:58 am Post subject: |
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It was perfect. No cops were needed to arrest anyone, that's a new tradition for my family!
Sorry about the late invite. *Wince* Not sure what happened there. _________________ --- Rava Purr-Fox
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Kinsfire Site Owner
Joined: 01 Nov 2001 Posts: 380 Location: Roselle, NJ
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:09 am Post subject: |
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Given how mail can get sometimes in my neighborhood - I've receieved things where the postmark said that it was sent a month earlier. I don't think it's necessarily an incompetent post office, since they're usually good about things like delivering the mail. It's just occasionally, things get realy $%^#% up in the delivery. Not common, but enough to be noticed.
Glad to hear it with the wedding - been to a few like what you say your family's are normally like...*laugh* _________________ That which does not kill me probably hurt like a sonuvabitch. |
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Kinsfire Site Owner
Joined: 01 Nov 2001 Posts: 380 Location: Roselle, NJ
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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Ah - now THAT explains it!
BTW - there's a PM for you over at FH - it should work, but if you could check and let me know, both if it's working, and the question I asked. _________________ That which does not kill me probably hurt like a sonuvabitch. |
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Shadu Registered User
Joined: 21 May 2003 Posts: 336 Location: Barranquilla
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:42 am Post subject: |
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read it liked it and have only one small coment.
i guess Rava has an idea going and i'll not go against it i'll just point it out and see if i'm right or not. while i was reading it looked like hary (while on the dursley home) had more freedom than usuall. his beeing able to make the sandwich h made seems like different from the norm for some reason... is something going to change in the relationships in these book? _________________ __________________
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Rava Purr-Fox Princess Of PR
Joined: 26 Jun 2004 Posts: 154 Location: With Josh Fox
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:59 am Post subject: |
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Shadu wrote: | read it liked it and have only one small coment.
i guess Rava has an idea going and i'll not go against it i'll just point it out and see if i'm right or not. while i was reading it looked like hary (while on the dursley home) had more freedom than usuall. his beeing able to make the sandwich h made seems like different from the norm for some reason... is something going to change in the relationships in these book? |
Nope just that the threat at the end of the fifth book suggested that if they starved him they would be coming to visit. You'll notice he wasn't eating with them. _________________ --- Rava Purr-Fox
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Styx Site Owner
Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 3176 Location: West Covina, California
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:15 am Post subject: |
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I'm surprised that I am the only one (that I have seen) that has commented on the many simularities between winds of change and HBP there were and all in chapters that Ray had released before HBP hit the shelves. question for Ray. How many chapters did you have out by the time HBP came out? _________________ "Political Correctness is tyranny with manners." Charlton Heston
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Rava Purr-Fox Princess Of PR
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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Styx wrote: | I'm surprised that I am the only one (that I have seen) that has commented on the many simularities between winds of change and HBP there were and all in chapters that Ray had released before HBP hit the shelves. question for Ray. How many chapters did you have out by the time HBP came out? |
The first six were written prior to HBP but seven thru ten were roughed out. When I started I was three to four chapters ahead, now I write and post as soon as I finish a chapter. The plot was always planned.
I studied the hints JKR had put out prior to HBP. I had planned on adding Mark Evans to the newest batch of students until she announced that Mark wasn't anybody special. Thats when I replaced him with Harry Eves. I liked the idea of there being a group of kids named after him, he was the biggest wizarding world hero in decades. I imagine in the late fourties there were a large group named Albus too *chuckles*
Her hints helped me to keep the plot I planned out close to canon for mom. We all knew she wouldn't live long enough to see the finished series but I tend to write faster than JKR so I took it upon myself to do what I could for mom. After she passed away I put the story on a shelf for almost a year. I decided to release what I had just prior to the release of HBP so people wouldn't claim I had followed JKR's plotlines.
I really wanted a very canon feel to it and I was one of the people who totally missed the canon boat, I sailed with HMS Pumpkin Pie (Harry/Hermione shippers). Of course I had planned on Remus and Tonks's co-habitation/guardian relationship, and I'm not going to say anymore on that. Currently I am working on chapter 19 and there is over 100,000 words to date and it's not even Halloween yet!
One of the things I love about fan-fiction.... Not limits on how long the book can be
One thing I will add, I have not changes my plot at all to accomidate anything in HBP, I had one detail I had not fully worked out but my brother and I had an idea and after HBP we agreed to do something differently. You'll know when you see it
Names however I will admit to changing. My main Werewolf antagonist was not named Greyback. He was going to be a Frenchman but I decided to use her character since he was exactly like my guyexcept for his nationality . It's easier to use canon names and it adds to expectations of the readers and shows just how different but at the same time keeps the canon feel in the story. _________________ --- Rava Purr-Fox
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