PropOfRose Update--Where I am in Writing

Hello, readers of The Properties of a Rose!

While the HPFF queue is closed (and trusted authors are not permitted to post either), I decided that I would write to my hearts' content. I got all the way to Part 27, and I was so excited to have written so much. And then I realised something: It was all crap. Utter crap.

For some reason, I had taken the story in a new and totally different direction than I had planned, making an already "bad" character into an "evil" character--which was not at all what I had intended. I'm very sorry to say that Parts 24-27 were not at all what I really wanted for this story. They have been cut, and I'm starting fresh from the end of Part 23, using only the parts of the following chapters that keep with my original intentions.

In some ways, I am incredibly mad at myself for getting carried away with a plot that I didn't really think through. I knew it was making this story much darker than I want, and yet I wrote it anyway. But then again, I feel like I learned a bit about what I want my limitations to be for each character, you know? Like I don't want Hugo to lose his absurdities, as that's what makes him so endearing to both myself as writer and Rose as his sister. And I don't want Rose to lose site of her spunkiness, even as she finds a softer, sweeter side of herself with Scorpius. And more than anything, I want to expand Albus to make him understanding and more mature, yet still goofy and over-caring for the people he loves (IE his cousins and sister). And Louis will never, ever lose his goofy t-shirts. ;)

Anyway, I'm still ahead of the game, and I've still got time to get further ahead in the remaining days that the queue is closed. I just wanted you all to know and understand what I've been going through--this fiction will not divert from the style it was originally; I enjoy writing it too much to change it drastically.

I also want to thank you guys and gals so so so much for sticking by me with this fic! I really really appriciate all of the reads (over 33,000!) and reviews (278!) that you've given me--all of the support and patience you have shown. If it weren't for many of you and your dedication, I probably would have quit writing this fic long ago. Thank you for encouraging me to go on. :)

You readers rock!

Thanks, and please check in for updates after the queue reopens!

--Kate/RP <3

HPFF Housekeeping

Okay, so my list of WIP fics is extremely long. And I have new ideas that I want to flesh out or think about, so I'm doing some much needed housekeeping. Don't worry--I'm going to save any stories that I delete on a flashdrive, but I am going to erase many off of my HPFF account. If I have a bout of writer's block again, I'll pull up those stories and see if I have any new ideas. But as for now, I'm going to let them rest for a bit. They're tired anyway.

If anyone is extremely upset by a deleted story, let me know via a comment. I'll try to flesh out something for you. After all, I do write for you all.

I'm only keeping WIP fics that I have full inspiration for--not just inspiration to the next chapter or sentence.

I've deleted off of my account the following stories:
The Cursed Skull
The Truth About Peter
Call Me Bright
Failing History
Summer Daze
Sailing Away
Albus Potter and the Hidden Secret

Like I said, everything is saved electronically, so I do have copies of the stories and will return and repost if I feel that I can do them justice. Right now, I get flustered looking at my own author's page.

I'm leaving my two WIP that are moving along well--The Properties of a Rose and Closer to Heaven Above.

Thank you guys for your understanding!
--Kate/RP