ok i tried tumblr for a bit and decided i really just Don't like having another social media acc so prob won't be updating this account abt fic. still posting stuff on ao3 just don't plan on sharing it here. i won't deactivate bc tumblr doesn't give you the option to temporarily do that or lock an account that i know of but this will be an archive or something unless i feel like using it again!
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He’s wanted to take Lily Evans to Hogsmeade for years, apparently, which is information seemingly known to everybody but him—and Lily, he hopes, but he’s not too sure on that front.
He really wants to take Lily Evans to Hogsmeade, but he’s also really not sure how to ask, or if he even should ask in the first place. They’re in a better place than they’ve ever been, he’s pretty sure—they’re certainly in a better place than they were at the beginning of the year, having had more than one apology and conversation in the months since Mary’s departure. He thinks they’re friends, now; real and proper friends—not just friends by association, friends because their friends are friends, friends of friends—actual friends with an established repartee and who say hi when they see each other around school and bicker fondly with no real heat behind it and tease one another with the rest of their friends. They’re not best friends, but they are friends, at least in his eyes, and he thinks that perhaps if a person (who was not him) asked Lily, she might say the same.
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“Do you round with Evans tonight?” James asks as they duck into another one of their trusted secret passages.
“Nah, tomorrow. Why?”
“I need her help with Charms,” James mutters.
“You can stop muttering it like you’re embarrassed.”
“I’m not embarrassed!”
“I didn’t think you were,” Remus grins. “I’m not making fun of you for your crush on Lily Evans.”
“See, when you say it in that tone of voice, it kind of feels like you’re making fun of me.”
“That’s Sirius’ job,” Remus says. “I am simply wondering if you’ve made any progress regarding your crush on Lily Evans.”
“How many times are you going to say the words ‘your crush on Lily Evans?’”
“As many times as it takes for you to come to terms with your crush on Lily Evans.”
“I’ve come to terms with it!” James retorts. “Really. I mean, if all of you are correct, I’ve supposedly had a crush on Lily Evans since I was thirteen.”
James, as pointed out by Sirius, and now Peter, has been too busy paying attention to Lily Evans’ hair—he is still enamored with her bob, which has grown out some since the summer but not long enough that it has lost the wave to it, and the discovery that Lily Evans has wavy hair is too much to get over in a matter of mere months—to pay much attention to Flitwick.
Just wanted to pop in to let you know how much I adore your writing. I started randomly reading an chapter of OMTWF and instantly fell into a rabbit hole of your fics and can't get enough of them haha. Your dialogue just feel so genuine, and you write yearning and angst SO DAMN WELL.
If your comfortable with sharing, how did you start writing and improving it with time? I understand it comes with practice and consistency, but do you have any tips to share? I really wanted to get into it as a creative outlet after my semester, and I would really appreciate your input
hi anon!!!
first of all, thank you so much!!!! 🥹
second of all, i'm absolutely comfortable! i've answered a few similar asks before and try to tag them under #on writing so feel free to look through there and see if there is anything useful as far as tips to share. i'll put some other stuff below the cut since this will likely get rambly haha
for getting started, i've said it before and i'll proclaim it until the day i die... just WRITE. anything. everything. i never had any sort of course at uni or anything beyond the curriculum offered at my high school. (i did take a creative writing class during my grad programme outside of my major but i didn't get much out of it lmao) so all that to say... i truly do stand by the belief that anyone can write if they do it often enough. i frequently go back to my first fics on ao3 (from around 2020 i think??) and want to rage delete them because they are so awful hahaha. BUT! they are benchmarks and proof that i have grown as a writer and storyteller even in 5-6 years.
some tangible things i do to help myself be consistent is only write what i want when i want. so if a scene has been really giving me a tough time, i move on. it'll still be there later. writing is just a hobby to me and i don't want it to ever become something i resent so i try to be careful about the pressure i put on myself. (that being said, i do often give myself deadlines because i work better under pressure... but nothing crazy!) i've shared my process before somewhere in my writing tag but i neeeeever worry about something sounding nice at first. i do dialogue first like it's just a straight-up texting fic. then, when i have the energy/time, i go in and add the correct conventions, details, dialogue tags, imagery, etc. this allows me to get sooo much more written.
i look at my writing in two stages:
1. just get the words DOWN. foundation and walls only. no windows or decor unless i'm excited/inspired by them.
2. windows, doors, decorations, furniture, etc. i have to be in the right mood to do this because it takes a bit more time. but i find that if i have alll the foundation down, i am more motivated because i wanna hurry up and get it 'move in ready' (sorry to beat the dead horse on this metaphor hahahaha). if i were to do this as i went, scene by scene, i would absolutely get burnt out because that's just how i am.
so that being said... you have to write in order to figure out how you are as a writer. you'll quickly learn the parts of the process you love and the parts you hate. it's funny because @ohhevans and i are working on a collab (which we need to get back to hahahaha) and have had so many moments of realising we have vastly different processes. for example, i'm forcing her to outline and idk if she's forgiven me for it yet. and then also her paragraphs are so long and beautiful and musical and flowery and mine are... not. but we BOTH were excited to talk over the phone at length about the progression exactly WHEN james and lily should KISS. so my point is that everyone is so different and i really love that about fandom.
DO PROMPTS. these days, i have more ideas than i could possibly put to paper... but when i started writing, i used prompt lists religiously in order to have a springboard. like there is just something magical to me about taking "i want to write something jily" and shifting it to "i want to write something about jily but in a modern au where they meet in a pub and james accidentally spills his drink on lily." there are so many good prompt lists floating around tumblr. i especially love jilytober and jily week!!!! (shoutout @kay-elle-cee and @sunshinemarauder)
other things i regularly do to stay motivated: make mood boards on pinterest, doodle character designs on my ipad, spend time pondering/scribbling down ideas for what other characters in a scene may be doing/thinking even if they're not the main pov, create outfits for my characters, etc.
OH AND i can never answer a writing question without giving props to my husband, who has always been and will always be my main sounding board.... and editor. haha. he's a lawyer so he has the technical eye for writing and regularly tells me things like "james is touching his hair too much in this scene" (which he's wrong about btw because there's no such thing) or "you said lily was pacing and now she's sitting on the couch? is she teleporting???" if you've ever read anything of mine, you've definitely read something of mr giggles's as well, because his fingerprints are all over my work haha!
as giggles said we are working on a collab and i knew we were different in our writing processes but truly we are SO extraordinarily different in our writing processes it kills me. no one asked but i 1) never outline 2) generally do not edit or proofread 3) do not really skip a scene and come back to it nor do i write something before its place in the story even if it's fully fleshed out, i just hold it in my head until it's time to write it 3.5) therefore do not distinguish between dialogue, description, exposition, etc, i write everything all in one go and in the order in which it goes always 4) used to do prompts but don't really anymore unless they speak to me 5) don't do self-imposed deadlines and 6) pretty much never ask anyone's opinion before sharing
to summarize: my writing process is more or less have idea --> write idea --> finish and hit post if i feel like it or don't hit post if i don't feel like sharing
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Sirius loves the Potters’ house more than anywhere else in the world; more than Hogwarts, even, and he never thought it would be possible to love a place more than he loves the castle. Peverell Manor is warm all the time; not just warm in a temperature sense, warm in a loving sense, warm like he’s welcome there, like he belongs. Nobody flinches at the sight of him and Euphemia likes to pause and run her hands through his hair or press a kiss to his forehead. It’s always absentminded, she’s been like this toward him since he was little, welcomed him into her home like he’s been there the whole time.