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Jul. 7th, 2003 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
person4*sighs* The second chapter of TMLT has officially kicked my ass. Well, no, the changes I had to make after reading OotP kicked my ass. If I had just said "Okay, this is now officially an AU" rather then "OOh, I've only put out one chapter and with minor alterations the story as a whole can pretty much remain in canon!" I would have been fine. Instead I chopped off two-thousand words, down to halfway through the second paragraph, and started a rewrite. Then I kept stopping and thinking "Wait a sec, this here will end up changing such and such later on. Oh, and now this bit's completely wrong. Oops, and if this here is so then I'm going to need to rewrite a certain other character's reaction when he finds out."
Really, all I thought when I started the rewrite was "Oh goody, Sirius' death doesn't really effect anything since he doesn't ever show up, plus I can give Harry some angst!" But as I wrote I began to realize that unimportent little bits of the book changed a couple of really important scenes. Hell, the scene when Harry first realises that he's starting to really like Percy's now impossible if I stick strictly to canon.
I'm finally at the point where I've decided to sit down and think hard about whether I really want to keep it in canon at all considering how quickly I was clipping along before deciding to rewrite, and if I decide to keep it canon whether to go all out about it (unlikely considering how bogged down doing so's gotten me) or whether to pick and chose (likely since I want to work with book five Percy, plus I don't want to do another rewrite). And if I decide to do that I need to sit down and think over what will definitely need to change to fit with that (for example Ron's not going to be nearly as supportive as planned about it. He'll still support Harry, but is going to take it being Percy he's dating much worse then I had originally planned since, ya know, Percy was a big ass in the last book.
If there's one thing I've learned from this it's that, if I ever decide to do another chapter rewrite that'll alter the whole series, to not save over the damned original version!
Really, all I thought when I started the rewrite was "Oh goody, Sirius' death doesn't really effect anything since he doesn't ever show up, plus I can give Harry some angst!" But as I wrote I began to realize that unimportent little bits of the book changed a couple of really important scenes. Hell, the scene when Harry first realises that he's starting to really like Percy's now impossible if I stick strictly to canon.
I'm finally at the point where I've decided to sit down and think hard about whether I really want to keep it in canon at all considering how quickly I was clipping along before deciding to rewrite, and if I decide to keep it canon whether to go all out about it (unlikely considering how bogged down doing so's gotten me) or whether to pick and chose (likely since I want to work with book five Percy, plus I don't want to do another rewrite). And if I decide to do that I need to sit down and think over what will definitely need to change to fit with that (for example Ron's not going to be nearly as supportive as planned about it. He'll still support Harry, but is going to take it being Percy he's dating much worse then I had originally planned since, ya know, Percy was a big ass in the last book.
If there's one thing I've learned from this it's that, if I ever decide to do another chapter rewrite that'll alter the whole series, to not save over the damned original version!