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So a few notes about this story, nine years later geeze.
If you follow my LJ, it's no surprise that I abandoned my Anita Blake stories about the same time as I fell out of love (rather violently) with the source material. I tried over the years to come back to this story; I'm not sure why this weekend was different, but I am very glad that it was. And here we are.
This ending is pretty much how I envisioned it happening when I started publishing back in 2005. This ending has literally been in my heads since then, and I'm glad I could bring it all out to share with you.
I'm.... I won't say I'm not happy with this ending, as it's the ending I always envisioned. But as with other parts of this story, looking back on it as the writer I have become over the last 10 years, I would have done it different from the start. Tightened up the plotting, cut out about a third of the Anita!angst because seriously. The ending itself in this story is actually, in my mind, quite true to the vein of the story (and keep in mind this was plotted out long before the series ended). However, I will be the first to say that the last couple of chapters tie things up in a very rushed way and it does lay the groundwork open for a sequel that I willprobably never write.
On the plus side, I feel that the way in which I killed Voldemort was quite nice - being offed with a muggle weapon, by a half-blood child, would grate at the Lord of Death. And the set-up of the Bokor Majeur was leading up to this point when Anita took over Voldemort's Inferi, and then made her choice in serving with both hands, that it was her choice to take them to her, and then let Elsa kill them, in order to protect the children. As Anita says, we all have good and evil inside us, and it is up to us to decide how to balance our hands.
On the OC side, I still love the main OCs in this story like burning. Elsa is lovely and I have a whole back-story about her. Reece is adorable and I can't help but think that he spends summers in St. Louis now with Richard's Wolf Pack growing up.
Also the happy endings I gave some of these characters (ie by not killing them) like Tonks and Remus, and the twins, and Dumbledore and Snape wasn’t because of any reaction to the last HP book, but because this was how I wanted it to be in the story. (because that's the bigger challenge, isn't it - living.)
Anyway. Thank you so much for putting up with me over the years, and for reading. You mean so much to me, and have helped me become a better writer over these years with your comments, your compliments, and your criticisms. You are, quite simply, wonderful.
Thank you for being part of this journey with me.
And for the curious:
What the sequel would have contained:
( Read more... )
If you follow my LJ, it's no surprise that I abandoned my Anita Blake stories about the same time as I fell out of love (rather violently) with the source material. I tried over the years to come back to this story; I'm not sure why this weekend was different, but I am very glad that it was. And here we are.
This ending is pretty much how I envisioned it happening when I started publishing back in 2005. This ending has literally been in my heads since then, and I'm glad I could bring it all out to share with you.
I'm.... I won't say I'm not happy with this ending, as it's the ending I always envisioned. But as with other parts of this story, looking back on it as the writer I have become over the last 10 years, I would have done it different from the start. Tightened up the plotting, cut out about a third of the Anita!angst because seriously. The ending itself in this story is actually, in my mind, quite true to the vein of the story (and keep in mind this was plotted out long before the series ended). However, I will be the first to say that the last couple of chapters tie things up in a very rushed way and it does lay the groundwork open for a sequel that I will
On the plus side, I feel that the way in which I killed Voldemort was quite nice - being offed with a muggle weapon, by a half-blood child, would grate at the Lord of Death. And the set-up of the Bokor Majeur was leading up to this point when Anita took over Voldemort's Inferi, and then made her choice in serving with both hands, that it was her choice to take them to her, and then let Elsa kill them, in order to protect the children. As Anita says, we all have good and evil inside us, and it is up to us to decide how to balance our hands.
On the OC side, I still love the main OCs in this story like burning. Elsa is lovely and I have a whole back-story about her. Reece is adorable and I can't help but think that he spends summers in St. Louis now with Richard's Wolf Pack growing up.
Also the happy endings I gave some of these characters (ie by not killing them) like Tonks and Remus, and the twins, and Dumbledore and Snape wasn’t because of any reaction to the last HP book, but because this was how I wanted it to be in the story. (because that's the bigger challenge, isn't it - living.)
Anyway. Thank you so much for putting up with me over the years, and for reading. You mean so much to me, and have helped me become a better writer over these years with your comments, your compliments, and your criticisms. You are, quite simply, wonderful.
Thank you for being part of this journey with me.
And for the curious:
What the sequel would have contained:
( Read more... )
