Greenhouse Three

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🌳 Multi-Chapter:

‣ Chasing (WIP) - Ginny Weasley POV. Post-war navigation of life, career, and identity (playlist)

🌿 One-Shot:

‣ Good Enough - Arthur POV, Fifteen 100-word drabbles for his daughter ‣ Harbor - Bill and Fleur post-wedding, DH missing moment ‣ Judas (WIP) - Percy POV, DH missing moment ‣ Defiance - Neville POV, Hogwarts, DH missing moment ‣ Surrender - Ginny POV, Hogwarts, DH missing moment (⚠ Dark) ‣ Standard Operating Procedure - Gred and Forge slice of life, DH missing moment ‣ Exodus - Molly POV, evacuating the Burrow, DH missing moment ‣ Clocks - Charlie POV, the Burrow, post-war musings ‣ In Search of an Oak - Hinny, post-war reunion, songfic ‣ Coming Up for Air - Hinny, late night talks, post-war (1/3) ‣ Like Circles on Water - Harry&Hermione, post-battle healing (2/3) ‣ Drowning - Hinny, late night soul-baring, spring '98 (3/3) ‣ Bookends - Bill and Ginny, coming-of-age and grief, summer '98 ‣ Career Advice (Revisited) - Hinny, the Burrow, summer '98 ‣ Flour, Butter, Sugar, Salt - Harry POV, Weasley post-war Christmas ‣ twenty-two - Hinny seaside holiday, quarter-life crisis, summer '02 ‣ A Soft Place to Land- Hinny, pre-epilogue slice of life (⚠ NSFW)

🌱 Microfic:

‣ Withered - Hinny slices of life (ft. special plant cameo) ‣ Fear - Golden Trio, post-war Hinny fluff ‣ Goodbye - Ginny&Neville, GoF missing moment ‣ Today (In Search of an Oak) - One-shot precursor, post-battle Hinny reunion ‣ Forbidden - Neville POV, forest vibes, DH missing moment

🍃Headcanon and Meta:

‣ Gin and Nev... A Friendship Forged in Fire ‣ Population in the Wizarding World

working on it, babe 💕

back in business, anon, thanks so much for asking! currently editing chaps 5 and 6 of chasing for a double drop, stay tuuneedd

thanks to everyone else for the kind messages! looking forward to leaping back into this lovely community with both feet after such a long haitus 💕

- gh3

hello! so sweet of you to think of me anon (and other pals who've reached out lately). in short: everything is okay and thank you so much for checking in... i've had a lot of changes with my job lately and have been trying to simultaneously complete several manuscripts and frantically apply for new positions (i'm sure fellow academia girlies can relate)

BUT perhaps biggest reason i haven't been posting much is that i broke my wrist rollerblading last month, and typing has been the absolute last thing i've wanted to do in my free time. play stupid games, win stupid prizes 🤸‍♀️

thank you for asking! i have a few unfulfilled fic requests sitting in my inbox, so i don't want to say no, but at the moment most of my fandom writing efforts are going into chasing. but if you've sent me a request, just know that it means a lot and i do hope to get to it someday! the prompts i've received are pretty fun (with one exception, and you know who you are...)

thank you so much, anon! chapter 5 is getting some finishing touches and has so many fun snippets to choose from, it's one of my favorites so far.

spoiler-free sneak peek below! (catch chapters 1-4 here)

ANyway, can't wait for chapter 5!

Thanks for your ask, anon! I can't tell you how happy it makes me that out of everything else in this fic, Binns' absence is the thing you keep noticing.

I love the theories and this is no exception... and I don't want to give too much away on this particular matter (do with that what you will), but I'm so stoked you put this much thought into your predictions about this little fic 👀

Chapter 5 is on its way!

first off, thank you so so much anon! this made my whole week!

but oof, this one is tough since i'm definitely not an authority on descriptive writing (or any sort of writing, really), and i'm not particularly introspective about the process. and twenty-two more or less fell out of my head in one piece, which doesn't happen very often for me, so i'm working a little backwards here.

so at the risk of sounding incredibly preachy, i've taken a stab at articulating how i tend to think when creating scenes. maybe some of this will be helpful?

for me as a reader, details that tend to stick out are both extremely specific and concise. the specific part comes a little easier for me when writing - picking out little actions and details from everyday life that i don't tend to read about very often - but the language precision takes more work. if a detail requires too many descriptors to convey the full picture, i'll usually revisit and search for more specific words or axe it completely.

i think it's really important to trust our abilities to describe things uniquely! which sometimes means swinging for the fences and missing entirely with an analogy that doesn't work, but i find that so much more interesting than relying on clichés.

i'll add to the choir of advocates for killing your darlings. deep down, you know if something doesn't fit. i keep a "dump now use later" doc as a personal pacifier, because it feels easier to delete an *incredibly clever* bit of wording if i think i can recycle it someday (spoiler: i won't).

i try not to think about this too hard, but syntax is a really helpful tool for flow and for characterizing a narrative voice (she says in full awareness that hermione's inner monologue in her fics sounds a lot like ginny's which sounds a lot like harry's... 😬).

i like to let descriptive verbs do the talking over adverbs an adjectives. again this is based on my preferences as a reader; i find actions to be much more immersive when they can stand alone without modifiers.

a wonderful beta changed my life by ruthlessly trimming the fat from one of my works. this is a little different than cutting out entire ideas that don't fit, more like removing filler from your sentences that dilute the point. i'm not necessarily advocating for a minimalist tone (lord knows we're far from that), but this kind of editing really helps the details pop.

a n y w a y , all of that feels very boiled down to a science, which might go against the point? i think it can be good to consider these things while editing, but i guess the biggest piece of 'advice' i would offer is to try and let your voice and your plot/ideas speak before any of the language mechanics. i usually feel most stuck when i'm too focused on phrasing something that doesn't serve the bigger picture, and zooming out to "what is this scene even doing here" often helps me realize that (ahoy, we've circled back to killing our darlings).

maybe some of that made sense, and if not i apologize, but thank you so much again anon for this humongous bit of flattery and for letting me ramble!

'bet your hols were pretty mellow...' 👻

damn anon, way to call out this fic's true endgame: a slow burn enemies-to-lovers quidditch rivalry between hogwarts' mouthiest captains 🧹

jfc

seriously though, in prepping for chapter 4 i revisited all of zach smith's appearances and he's just... so mean. and not even in a cute flirty way like draco.

so i won't be the one writing this one, but if you feel so inclined then by all means! love that for you! 👏

That year, the seventh month dies on a Wednesday and they leave town.

for dearest @turanga4, if a little belated. thank you for being so wonderfully you.

preview below the cut, full piece on AO3: