Name: Elle Blessingway reviewed
Prelude on Nov 07, 2005 10:44 am
It's great to see something from you again! I think what is so compelling about your writing and characterization is that your heros and villians aren't black and white, purely good or monstrously evil. Everyone exists in the shades of grey and I think this is very effective because it's human to be in the grey. No one is angelically good, and if they are, we despise them their goodness. No one is inherently evil and if they are it's only too easy to hate them. It takes a truly talented writer to make the reader feel sorry for the "bad" guy and twist around how we feel about the heroine.
Can't wait to read more of your writing!! Please don't keep us all waiting much longer!! And you said at one time that you used to write Sailor Moon fanfiction...where is that archived??
Author's Response: I agree that there is no black and white. Draco is proof of that, isn't he? Especially in HPB. I'm glad that many people felt the same way I did about the Draco I created. He's a enigmatic kind of evil. An honorable villan. He's delicious.
Oh, my old, shameful SM stuff? I took it down. It sucked. I do have some stuff archived on (ugh) FFN under this same name. There's an Auron/Rikku and a few others. Also, I have two KOTOR fics archived here: http://www.kotorfanmedia.com/?author=939
I write some random stuff, actually.
Name: CatiannaGranger reviewed
Prelude on Nov 05, 2005 07:02 am
Oh! I loved it! Your stories are absolutely amazing. You write with such depth and feeling that the reader can feel the emotions of the characters. I'm so glad that you have decided to write The Storm and I look forward to it daily! Keep up the great work!
Author's Response: Thank you very much! I try to write emotions well. I love the complicated aspects of love, pain, passion and anger, and the entanglements of it all.
Name: mou reviewed
Prelude on Nov 05, 2005 04:45 am
I am so glad that you are writing the next instalment of your achingly beautiful story. I thing Before the Storm was the best D/G i have ever read and I have been reading D/G fanfics for over 5 years now! The characters are not OOC as they mostly are in other fanfics. Somehow, the tormented love affair of Draco and Ginny reminds me of both Bronte's Wuthering Heights and Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. Please keep on writing and update soon...you are a very powerful writer.
Author's Response: I love Wuthering Heights! Heathcliff is such a powerful character! Thank you, Mou. I'm so glad you enjoyed BtS and are looking forward to the sequel.
Name: euridice reviewed
Prelude on Nov 05, 2005 02:43 am
wow! finally you're posting again! I missed your great way of writing so much, since the end of Before the Storm... your stories are so beautiful, but soooooo sad!
I remember you said this was going to be a trilogy, so probably the very hard times are yet to come for our favourite couple and The Storm will be as sad as Before the Storm, but please, please please... how about a happy end at least for the trilogy?
I'm officially asking you to join the "committee for the stifling of sad endings" (I know, my translation sucks, but I assure you that in italian, which is my language, it sounds much better!)... currently this committee is formed by several very talented italian fanfiction writers and a lot of very passionate ff readers... we would be honoured to have you among us... so please, please, please, write something similar to HAPPILY EVER AFTER in the end, ok?
Thanks!
Author's Response: My husband is italian!! Okay, only half, but that counts as something, right? Thank you very much, by the way, and I've decided to shorten it to just a sequel. No trilogy anymore. I realized that I could combine my plans into one rather then two books. I'll have to think about that happy ending (wink wink) but time will tell.
Name: bellasol67 reviewed
Prelude on Nov 04, 2005 02:12 pm
This was lovely! Sad, dark and even though Draco has probably just done some horrible things, I still feel sorry for him.
Author's Response: Strange, that. Draco gets away with evil because he's Draco. I love it.
Name: HP Geek reviewed
Prelude on Nov 04, 2005 01:43 pm
Draco is dark and beautiful. Such a troubled soul. I think it makes me love him even more. You do Draco so well!! I hope that in the end is is "that better man" !!
Just a question in "The Storm", will Ginny be different? Will she be harden because of Draco and all that she has been through? I would love to see her with an edge. Not let people walk all over her. Some fire to go with all that red hair!!
Author's Response: Time will tell with Ginny. She really got emotionally kicked around in BtS, so I know its safe to say she'll have grown. She's a redhead after all. She's got to have fire to go with all his ice!
Name: Wyvern159 reviewed
Prelude on Nov 04, 2005 01:32 pm
Oh, what a beautiful prelude. I have been so patient since Before the Storm...it's been amazingly hard. I hope to see The Storm soon, so many people have been waiting anxiously! The quick peek into Draco's mind while he thought of all the crazy things he wanted to do when he thought of Ginny and how he almost wished he was a better man was insightful, to say the least. Good luck with The Storm!
Author's Response: Oh God, oh God, oh God... I'm struggling with The Storm. It's going so painfully slow!! Prelude is a sort of intermission, to show how poor Draco is doing at this stage in the game. Sucks to be him.
Name: Vanessa reviewed
Prelude on Nov 04, 2005 11:41 am
Oh my god, this reminds me why you are and always will be my favorite author. I love your characterization of Draco, hes just the way I truly imagine him to be. Your stories are filled with such sadness...I love them! I hope you contniue writing, you truly have a gift with words. I cannot wait for the sequel to 'Before the storm'. Oh, and I have just one question: The scars on his palm...they were caused by the shattered globe, yes?
Author's Response: I love fanfiction. We get to create characters that we've grown to love, and expand on them. Draco is such a gem to work with, too, though I wonder/fear what Rowlings is going to do with him in the final book. Thanks, by the way, and yes, the scars on his palm were from the snowglobe he tripped on in the final chapter. Sorry got taking so long to get back to you!