Recent fest fic round-up

I didn't fall off the face of the earth; I've just been really busy and I also took a kind of hiatus from the internets. I waste a lot of time online doing nothing, so I really just stopped using the computer at all, except to infrequently check my emails. I ended up paying attention to other hobbies and spending more time with my daughter, so it was nice, but I miss writing and keeping up with fandom and friends, so I guess it's time to try to do that without sitting in front of the monitor and suddenly realizing that I've been there for five hours. We'll see how that works.

Anyway, all the exchanges I did over the summer are now complete, so I can now tell you that I wrote them.

At weasley_fest, I wrote Faking It for delayed_poet. (Draco/Ginny, PG-13)

At hermione_smut, I wrote What They're After for someone who dropped out. (Hermione/Fred/George, NC-17)

At hp_summersmut, I wrote The Right Question for ltgarrix. (Narcissa/Snape, NC-17)

At the risk of sounding conceited, I really like the H/F/G one, which is ironic because I really, really hated the prompts and requests and trying to fulfill them is what ultimately, in my opinion, made the story end up being as good as it is. The Draco/Ginny one was a lot of fun; I like banter and that's pretty much what the two of them did. The Snape/Narcissa one is the one I feel the most ambivalent; I don't feel very comfortable writing Snape, and in retrospect I don't know why I did it from Snape's POV either. Well, it was fun to look at Narcissa from his eyes.

Speaking of Narcissa, I noticed as I was skimming comment requests at a holiday exchange sign-up post that a lot of people seem to want nothing to do with her, Lucius, or any Slytherins. I myself don't care for some of the fanfiction that kind of glorifies all the Deatheaters and/or makes them unredeemably evil, psychotic murderers, but as I was contemplating what characters I wanted to write about, I found myself thinking that I'd rather write about them than some of the "nice" characters that people get excited about. This is probably another example of how I am a terrible person. Anyway, this also made me remember that at The Petulant Poetess, my Lucius/Narcissa fic has the lowest story hit count-- lower than even Charlie/Cho. I wonder if that due to the same issues?

Speaking of Cho, my next goal is to finish a fic involving her. Months ago, I wrote a piece at the last minute to submit for the Slash Superchallenge at violetquill's LJ, but due to HTML bork it didn't make it on the masterlist and I wasn't pleased with it anyhow. I mean, I think it's pretty solid, but it kind of meandered to an end that wasn't really satisfying, so I want to play with it and see if it will work as the first part of something longer. I also want to write some drabbles, probably for rairpair_shorts. I'm scared of them and I need to get over that fear.