[The Slytherin Redemption and Miss Patil Takes a Holiday]

Topic Title: Slytherin Redemption

Topic Description: My Current Stories/ Harry Potter Fandom

Title: The Slytherin Redemption and Miss Patil Takes a Holiday

Author: tambrathegreat

Rating: Adult

Summary: The Slytherin Redemption: A collection of stories (now AU, due to revelations AFTER DH came out about the characters. These stories were started before them.) about the aftermath of the war. Most are complete and posted on another site. The first is about Gregory Goyle. Then we cover Draco and his tribulations. The last will be about Severus Snape All stories will be finished. I never leave a story half done.

Miss Patil Takes a Holiday is a WIP about Lucius Malfoy. He has been in prison for twelve years. Draco is married to a Muggle, and Narcissa has divorced him. What's an ex-Death Eater turned spy to do but fall for a beautiful young Doctor?

Fandom: Harry Potter

URL or Site link: http://hp.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600017238 for The Slytherin Redemption.

http://hp.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600017185 for Miss Patil takes a Holiday.

Thank you for reading this post, and if you choose to read the stories. Any reviews will be appreciated.

tambrathegreat

[OCs... what do you think of them?]

I write in the Harry Potter Fandom, and since there are so few females as major characters, I write OC's into my stories that are fairly important to the story.

I have had people tell me they won't read the stories because of the OC's and I've had others say that the OC's were so well written, they became like cannon. It's a hard balance to strike when creating new characters in an existing world. Certainly you don't want to put a Mary Sue in, or give the reader less information on the OC than they have on the canon characters. I build most of my OC's around a central mannerism. For instance, one female bit her cheek when she was thinking, in trouble or nervous. This was a good indentifier for her and the rest evolved from that.

I think writing OC's helps stretch your wings as a writer. YOu can put a character in a known situation and have them react to it. It helps define what you want to express about the main character and can expand the sphere of the story beyond canon.

A badly written OC harms a story. If they are Mary Sues or Gary Lous it cheats the reader of a more complex reading experience. Perfection is boring so why write about it?

[Taking it Like a Man]

I didn't need to read these reviews, they were regarding the rejection of the story into the site's featured listings, and I'd asked to know the specific reasons why it did not meet with the criteria. In other words, I'm not complaining and can actually understand the points that were brought up.

I've had a problem getting my stories posted on any of the moderated sites. I had a featured story, but couldn't get anything past the fifth chapter posted. The moderator kept saying I had not fixed the problems, I needed to get a beta-reader, etc...

I did what they asked, finally got the first story posted and went through the same thing with the next story I posted, even though I was still using the same beta-reader and had gone through grammar books to beef up on my comma decorating tendencies. I finally gave up after reaching the fifth chapter in the new story and not getting any further. I don't know if the moderator the site hated my style, my story was crap or if I just wasn't getting what she was trying to say. It did hurt. She had some good points about specifics, but when I kept getting dinged for things I had just corrected it became ridiculous. I pulled the stories and won't try to post with that moderator again. I know it was a juvenile thing to do, but I do know I hate going to a site and attempting to read a story only to find that it is unfinished and will remain so.

BTW on a related, sister site, I've had no problems posting stories.

Anyway, I do understand the frustration and hurt you felt. The story you wrote is your baby, and it's not easy to see the baby rejected.

[Older writers?]

January 8, 1965. I was worried I would be the old bag on the block. It makes me fell good that I'm not.

I just noticed I was listed as a virgin. I haven't been that in a while.