Harry Potter and the Order of Anxiety

[urbandruid]

I've been trying to write, work a bit more on one of my fics- any fic- and it's not happening. Sometime between falling asleep last night and opening the .doc files this morning, I've crossed a line, and suddenly I can't write. At least I can't write the post-GoF stuff (and I just started a new one this week, because I am crazy.)

I haven't been this nervous and excited since- well, let me think. Either Star Wars Episode I, or my high school graduation. Episode One was a serious let-down in a lot of ways, but graduation was fun.

I'm terrified, though. What if she kills Snape? What if she kills Remus? What if she kills the real Alastor Moody, and we never get to see how cool he really is? What if it's an awful book?

Okay, so I don't think it'll be an awful book. But I am terribly nervous.

Nerves are not conductive to writing.

And that's the other thing- for all that I've mocked the FictionAlley people for their fears about post-OoP and fic writing, suddenly I am terrified, my own stories feeling so up in the air and I don't know where they're going to land...

11 1/2 hours.

edit - oh, this is good. A couple of us were talking over at jenavira's journal, and ginnyjake pointed out that Snape can't die yet, because then they'd need a new potions professor and a new DADA teacher, and that would be too confusing. I like this thought very much.

Comments

[jenavira.livejournal.com]

Unless - and you're going to hate me for this - things get bad enough that they close the school.

They can't in this one, because there's been talk in reviews of the OWL's, but in six...

[urbandruid.livejournal.com]

I do hate you.

Yeah, that's a good point though. Book 6 is going to be another bunch of anxiety attacks, I'm sure.