![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Does anyone feel like being a kind of hand-holding beta for a Lily/Sev/Reg (various combinations) fic? I got what didn't seem like but is apparently turning out to be a fairly ambitious idea a while back. I am about 3800 words into it and from the looks of things it is likely to turn out in the 10-15k range (!).
This terrifies me because I have not written anything that long before, and in fact fear that if I really do go on that long, that it's just that I'm failing to be concise. At this point I am asking for general advice more than help with phrasing and all the usual stuff (SPAG is rarely necessary for me, except to rein in my overuse of some words and tendency to use ten words where three would have done). I need to know if I am trying to do too many things at once, help with how to work in "now, while all this has been happening, this other thing has been happening offstage" kinds of things, and probably help avoiding plot holes.
It centers around interpersonal drama and angst, although there will be smexing in it (I'm not sure if it will go up to NC-17, but surely R) and also some (magical) drug use (and mentions of past use in the Muggle way). We are not talking a rapid-fire need, here; after this piece it will likely be some time before I get up to a chunk this size again.
I know this is totally the right time of year for this when no one has anything else on their plates. *nods sagely*
This terrifies me because I have not written anything that long before, and in fact fear that if I really do go on that long, that it's just that I'm failing to be concise. At this point I am asking for general advice more than help with phrasing and all the usual stuff (SPAG is rarely necessary for me, except to rein in my overuse of some words and tendency to use ten words where three would have done). I need to know if I am trying to do too many things at once, help with how to work in "now, while all this has been happening, this other thing has been happening offstage" kinds of things, and probably help avoiding plot holes.
It centers around interpersonal drama and angst, although there will be smexing in it (I'm not sure if it will go up to NC-17, but surely R) and also some (magical) drug use (and mentions of past use in the Muggle way). We are not talking a rapid-fire need, here; after this piece it will likely be some time before I get up to a chunk this size again.
I know this is totally the right time of year for this when no one has anything else on their plates. *nods sagely*