I'm up to 6,800 on the Big bang fic. I had 7800 at one point, but the scene as written simply didn't work. It's this kind of thing -- having to throw out a whole day's work and replace it with a new (albeit hopefully better scene) that makes me question why I wanted to do a novella in the first place. Since yesterday and  today were a wash, I'm going to try dedicating tomorrow to nothing but writing.

Upon reflection, I feel like pond scum for abandoning my C/Hr. So I put it to you, dear readers, which would you rather see:

1. More one-shots with various characters and pairings.

2. The C/Hr. Harry dies in GoF Hermione and Cedric travel in time to try to set things right. 20,000-25,000 words

3. AU. After OotP Severus wishes for a world where he never called Lily a mudblood and married her. Harry wishes for a world where Sirius never died. They get their wish. Unfortunately, it's also a world where Voldemort is on the brink of victory, James is a DE, Hermione is ignorant of magic, and Remus, Ron, and Dumbledore are dead. Harry, Lily, Luna, a very bitter Ginny and others team up to fight Voldemort. Snape/Lily, and Harry/Luna feature, but it's mostly a war story with a strong emphasis on the familial bond between Snape/Harry/Lily. 50,000+ words

Go read The Family Business at springtime_gen It's awesome. I don't even like Draco, and I love it.

(This post so I can officially say I recced it after gushing about it in comments to various fen)

Title: The Hobgoblin's Return
Pairing: Peter/Felicia
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 6600
Summary: TAS based. The Hobgoblin escapes from prison. Felicia faces her demons.

( The Hobgoblin's Return )

With springtime_gen  in full swing, my Spidey fic in beta and reveals for hp_spring_fling  forthcoming, I'll soon have three fics available for public consumption. They couldn't be more different: het, slash, and gen are all represented and length varies wildly. All this has me thinking about reviews. Is there a number you expect to get, regardless of the genre or pairing? What do you consider a good response?

Two things I've noticed. My gen fics tend to have a higher percentage of substantive comments vs. "that was cute" etc. than my romance fics (except "Turnabout," which got some amazing reviews). I'm not sure why that is. The other is that popularity does not necessarily correlate with how much I liked it. "Second Kisses" is by far my most popular fics, but it's nowhere close to my personal favorite of my fics. My favorite is my springtime_gen fic, and the jury's still out on that one. The anonymity is killing me. I want to take it, post it to every comm I can find and scream: I WROTE THIS!!! Heh. I'm sure I'm not the only exchange author who feels that way. May 22 is a long way away.

springtime_gen is due to start posting today, and I'm on the edge of my seat waiting. It's harder to wait for a few hours than a few weeks.

The Spider-Man fic is going well and should be done by the end of the week. My beta is going to kill me. Everyone uses so many aliases in canon that sometimes it feels like you can't tell the players without a scorecard.

ETA: And they've started posting. Now I can start worrying over how many reviews I'll get and whether my recipient will like it.

I'm working on a Spider-man fic (90s cartoon) to fulfill someone's yuletide New Year's Resolution request. I fully expect it to go over like a lead balloon, but it's a story I really want to tell. And since there are only two short fics in this pairing, I get to tread new ground :) My Hermione/Cedric fic is going to be on the back burner for a bit. I'll try to finish on deadline, but I'm okay with not finishing on time. I'm not a "get it all down and fix it later" writer, which is what Big Bangs (the rough draft phase, anyway) are geared to.

Bid Time Return is at 6300 words. Writing has been very slow over the last few days (6-700 words), but I remain hopeful that it will pick up again soon. New chapters are like new stories, and I always start slow.

phil_urich wrote me a lovely Peter/Felicia Spider-man fic. You can read it here. *beats own plot bunny away with a stick*

Crossposted from the Hermione Big Bang Author's comm for those interested in what I'm up to:

I have a feeling I'm going to end up dropping out of hermionebigbang . My plot ideas keep running of the rails or I discover a gaping plot hole, etc. Qute frankly, I don't like any of my plots. I'm not a huge Hermione fan, so it's a struggle to get the bunnies to hop. If this were a Cedric or Luna Big Bang, I probably could have written half of War and Peace by now. Add in the fact that I have a non-HP fic, that's practically demanding to be written, and I fear it's a recipe for disaster.