How I Discovered Fanfiction

How I Discovered Fanfiction 

     I was bored, sitting in front of my computer and surfing my favorite Harry Potter website, Mugglenet. After reading the latest news post I was looking at the sections at the top of the page: Books, News, Fans, Discussion, and Media. Clicking on ‘Fans’ I scrolled down the page looking for an interesting section. Something popped out at me ‘Mugglenet Fanfiction’ it read. I clicked, and it was one of the best decisions I ever made. 

     

     On the top of the page it had two paragraphs on what fanfiction was. Once I had read it I understood that the following stories I would read might not be cannon (Non-Cannon means that the author has said that it didn’t happen that way). 

     

     I saw tons of fanfictons: AU (Alternative Universe), Non-Cannon (Things that never happened in the books), Next Gen (Next Generation), Adventure, Horror, Romance, and a ton of other stuff.

     

     After sitting there for a few seconds, debating about which one the click, I decided to try Next Generation. That category was about the kids of the first generation (Harry and his friends/enemies). 

      

     One character I was particularly interested was Harry’s youngest child, Lily. In the epilogue of the books his two older sons had been given personalities, but Lily wasn’t. So I searched up ‘Lily Potter ll’.

     

     There were very few stories about her and I felt compelled to write a bit about her. It seemed unfair that James and Albus (her older brothers) had a lot of stories about them but Lily only had a few.

     

     My first draft of ‘Lily Potter and the Resurrection Stone’ was awful! However, I thought it was wonderful at the time and sent it in to Mugglenet Fanfiction. They didn’t accept it and soon I realized why. 

     

     My story didn’t really have plot, the characters that I had created were quite shallow, plus my dialouge seemed stiff and not at all realistic. I had thought this would be easy, and my planned 20 chapter story would only take a month to write. I was wrong. 

      Once I had a plot that I liked and felt it  was stable I started to work on the characters. In my first draft Lily had two good friends: Her cousin, Hugo, and a character I made up called October. I kept both of them, but had to fix a lot of problems. 

     

      Hugo didn’t say much and just kind of stood there, so I gave him a personality. October was okay, but I tweaked her a bit and re-did her introduction so it fit her new personality a bit better.

     

     Then there was the setting. I had a lot of problems. In one chapter Lily’s bedroom would be in the hallway by the stairs and the next moment it would be down on the first floor. So I drew out a map of the Potter House, placing Lily’s bedroom permanently.

     

     So far I’ve written 5 chapters but Mugglenet still hasn’t accepted my first one. I guess I have a little more work to do. I”m sure someday it will be good enough and then there will be one more Lily Luna Potter story out there.

The Salem Institute - Chapter One

"Urg!" I leaned against a tree in the schoolyard of Salem Witches' Institute. 

"When will she get here... We're going to be late for class!" My friend murmured, tapping her fingers against her knee

Finally our friend jogged up her backpack jumping up and down on her back with every step. She looked a bit messy, one of her sneaker's wasn't fully on and her sweater (which was pulled hastily over her collared shirt) was slightly lopsided with part of the collar under it. I knew she didn't care though.  

I hadn't done anything special for the first day either. This morning I had just slipped on my uniform and pulled my hair back into a ponytail, nothing special. 

Our uniform was comprised of an annoying long sleeve white button up shirt which made me feel like a stiff, starched piece of cardboard, a blue sweater that itched a lot and made all of us look like we had fleas, how ferociously we scratched. We also had to wear jeans or shorts that were as long or longer than your arms fell.   

My other friend, Mayzie (Or crazy Mayzie as we affectionately called her) had a matching blue headband holding her long dark brown hair back and a ponytail sprouting from her head.  

Mayzie laughed, making the ponytail shake furiously "There you are! Ready for our second year at the prestigious Salem Witches Institute?" She said putting air quotes around prestigious.

Jamie grumbled, "My alarm clock failed me."

I internally face palmed. Jamie was a beast in the morning and it took her half an hour to get out of bed. 

"Crazy, Jam, we need to get going!" I said as I began to fast walk. 

"Don't call me JAM!" Jamie screamed as she fast walked up to me and gave me a small shove.  

Mayzie jogged up to us and rolled her eyes at our cat fight. She was used to this, we did it all the time. 

A few minutes later Mayzie had beat us up the steps (she can run like no one's business) and we were still trudging along. 

Suddenly Jamie poked me and said "Race you!"

And we were off. After 30 seconds of running we were still neck in neck and the school steps were right in front of us. It was a tie. 

Once we were through the doors I checked my watch. 8:21, 9 minutes before classes started. I, along with my friends took out my schedule and hurriedly scanned it. 

There were three groups in each year: the ones who had been born in the first four months of the year, the second four months of the year, or the third four months of the year. You just had to be born in the year 2015 to get into the second year. We started school at the age of 11, and went on for 8 more years. 

We were all in the same group because I was born in October, Jamie was born in late September, and Mayzie was born in the middle of December. 

We had history first. As Mayzie grumbled and groaned about it I quickly reviewed the summer homework. I was going through it because our formidable teacher, Mrs. Abernathy, had threatened to give us a quiz on our homework. 

Sighing I leaned against a locker outside Mrs. Abernathy's classroom "That stupid quiz. Why would she assign one at the beginning of the school year."

"I don't know, but it's horrible. That homework was terror." Jamie agreed

"I did it last night... Gosh it was annoying." Mayzie said

When I glanced at my watch again it was 8:27. "We better go in, guys."

One hour later the torture was over and we left the classroom our bags were alot heavier because of the intense homework. 

A few classes later Jamie, Mayzie and I were sitting at lunch along with the other kids in the 3rd section. As I picked at my gross sandwich, gulping down two mouthfuls of water with every bite, Mayzie picked up one of her fruit snacks and flicked it at me. Soon we were in a full fledged food fight I throwing cheese puffs, Jamie launching grapes, and Mayzie constantly flicking fruit snacks with deadly accuracy. 

Soon Crazy May was all out of ammunition and Jamie and I teamed up, waging war on our friend. Suddenly Jamie turned on me and threw a grape right at my face. I quickly retaliated and soon I was out of missiles and had joined Mayzie behind a tree, taking cover. After we had called truce and recess had ended we had our last two classes of the day: transfiguration and divination. 

Transfiguration was hard, but not too bad and divination was a snooze as usual.

Precisely at 2:30 the bell rang and we all fled the school, quickly hopping on the Appa-Bus (Apparition Bus) or walking home if you lived in the area.

I HOPE YOU ENJOED! 

~Lauren

Funny Percy Jackson Photos

Hehehe these made me laugh... XD

A Small Blue Box Chapter One

A Small Blue Box

I walked down the sidewalk, looking at my worn down sneakers and watching the laces flop up and down with every step. I held a stick out and every time it hit another bit of fence the clang shooed away any birds resting in the trees lining the street. Not that there were that many, for it was the hottest day this summer and no sane animal would come out of the shade for a minute. Unless they wanted to be roasted alive. I was bored, so I had walked down to the park. Nothing interesting was happening there and I was now wandering aimlessly. Suddenly a old Police Call Box loomed on the sidewalk. 'That wasn't there yesterday?!' I thought to myself. It was resting up against someone's fence and I was guessing that when it had arrived there, however it arrived there, they had had some trouble getting it into that position. The fence in question had one board knocked out, and it was leaning a little as though it had been impacted from above. I carefully examined it. The blue paint was slightly faded and all the windows on the sides were misted over. One of the doors had a little sign on it that said 'Property of The Doctor, please return if found' and under that was 'Rose was here!' I wondered who Rose and The Doctor were. I sighed. My friends would hate me forever if I didn't show them, this town was so boring when something interesting happened everybody had to share it. That was an unspoken rule. So I set off to find them.

I never saw the small blue box again.

A/N I Hope you enjoyed!

~Lauren

Comments

Hey!

So I love this blog to death, but I have one problem with it. I HAVE NO COMMENTS! Why?!

I am going to propose a challenge. If you have glanced, read or even looked at my blog please comment on one post! Just one! I really need feedback!

~Lauren

Stuff

Hey Guys!

So this is my first post in what... like 2 months?

I'm sorry, I really don't have an excuse but I promise I'm staying this time.

So, I'm working on a new story and its set in Salem in 2027. Now no more sneak peaks for you! I'm super exited and my main character's name is Abbie. Shoot... that is a sneak peak. Now I gotta move on before I spill the whole plot.

Here are some official link related to me or Nerdly.

Youtube

Fanfiction.net

HarryPotterFanFiction.com

Figment

Pinterest

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See Ya!

~Lauren