This is just an announcement about my Hazel Granger Harry Potter fanfiction's 1 year anniversary is COMING UP SOON! On October 7th, it will have been a year since I shared the prologue of my Hazel Granger Harry Potter fanfiction that ended up being 24 chapters, plus some extras! I still will not be continuing it OR rewriting it, but I just wanted to recognize this important milestone for Hazel Granger and her friends! You guys might not care, but for me, this is pretty amazing. My fanfiction has been around for almost a year now! (Sure, it's not popular, but it's still been around for a year, so, yeah.) I now have a writing class, so if you want to join, you can go to the studio! https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/50861257 If you want to know if the class is for you and what the class is all about, go ahead and take a look at this too! https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1216643135/
PLEASE READ ALL: If you guys want me to make a 1 year anniversary project with highlights from the fanfiction, let me know. If you want me to make this project, tell me some of YOUR favorite moments from the story! For those of you who haven't read my Hazel Granger Harry Potter fanfiction... just thinking about it makes me cringe a little XD, but also, I guess, I feel a bit proud because it taught me so much. Seriously, that whole story was just... a MESS, and here's why! The biggest issue was definitely the plot, or rather, the complete lack of one. I just started writing. I had NO IDEA what was going to happen. Everything was just so rushed and action-packed and there was literally no point of its existence except to help me learn from my mistakes. Things just happened because I thought they sounded cool at the moment. It was so...not bad exactly, just...not my best work. Not my worst work, I will say that, but definitely not my best work. It's almost embarrassing to reread XD And because there was no plot, it was ridiculously rushed. Every chapter was just pure action-packed chaos (sorry if I'm being repetitive!). There were battles, fights, magic, and all that good stuff, but those things are only good if they make sense together. Which, sadly, they did not. I mean, if there had been a plot, they would have made sense, but they did nothing to help the story. There was no downtime, no character development, no time for the reader, or me honestly, to actually care about what was going on. It was just one rushed scene after another that did NOTHING for the story. Honestly, looking back, the story kind of had no point. It existed, I guess, but for no real reason beyond me just wanting to write something. But that's where the learning part comes in. It was a pretty disastrous first attempt, sure, but it now helps me to know that I do indeed need to actually know what is going to happen before I write. Now I completely understand why people say you need to plan. In fact, I've been doing that while writing my book that I hope to get published some day. You actually need to know what's going to happen in your story before you just dive right into writing. I needed to figure out the major plot points/milestones or whatever you want to call it, maybe even make an outline (Like I've done for the novel I'm writing currently that I wish to get published one day) instead of just letting my brain dump every random idea onto the page. It was a valuable lesson. I can't just write whatever comes into my mind anymore. My current story is going to be so much better and different. I'm actually going to have a plan, some sort of direction in which I'm going. I know where the characters are going, what obstacles they'll face, and how they'll actually resolve things. Hazel Granger was just me flailing, but now I know better. It was, I suppose, an essential stepping stone. So, there's my very long explanation of...what was I explaining again? XD Welp, it will soon be Hazel Granger's 1 year anniversary, so if you want that project I talked about wayyyyy back at the top of this description, then let me know! Thank you to all of you who have stuck with Hazel (and me!) all this time! Now I'm thinking about Snape's famous line: Dumbledore: "After all this time?" Snape: "Always." Sooo, yeah! Bye and thank you again!!!! God bless! -Scoobyrules1
