My Hero Kelly
Jan. 19th, 2020 01:57 pmChallenge #10
Talk About A Creator/Someone Who Inspired You.
I remember vividly how a lot of people, strangers (except through their fiction) and friends (who became friends thanks to our fiction) have inspired me since the day I entered fandom in August 2003. And this winter all of you in my access/subscription list here, and also people whose writing I’ve seen on LJ or AO3 but whom I haven’t found on DW, have inspired me – at least to all this rambling around Snowflake!
Since I have to pick one person, I want it to be![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kelly_chambliss, who is here to see this – and for you all to meet – and who also was there for me before my hiatus, in 2009 and 2010. Kelly was new to HP fandom back then, still looking for places with more stories of the kind she was most interested in.
(Oddly enough I can’t remember the exact beginning of it but) the two of us must have commented on each other’s small one-shots and gone on discussing our writing. And this amazing lady gave a chance to my post-OotP Remus novel (Remus Lupin and the Revolt of the Creatures – yes, I urge you to click the link, because you’ll see not only the humble beginning of my fic but also some of Kelly’s most extensive contribution, her concrit right there in the public comments, just as I wanted to leave it) which I had started writing six years earlier and posting on LiveJournal a month earlier. At my request she included beta corrections in her thoughtful, generously praising comments.
Kelly stayed loyal to me and my Remus novel, even though she was finding more of those fests and communities that she wanted to focus on. She went on – for a whole year – and commented quite as wonderfully on each of the twenty-one long chapters, until the story was completed and published in its edited form. This was extremely important for me, because during the long process of writing the story almost all of my original readers (on the small forum where I’d posted it as WiP) as well as later readers of my short stories had left the fandom, and in 2009 I thought I’d also lost the beta and dear friend whom I’d found on LJ in 2006. Without Kelly’s support it would have been harder for me to succeed in the final scenes and to believe the story was worth finally sharing on LJ and FictionAlley, and her comments helped me fix mistakes particularly in the early (previously unbeta’ed) chapters.
At the same time Kelly inspired me to explore new corners of HP fandom. Thanks to her I started reading more about female characters and older characters, and enjoying femslash. Her own wise and beautiful stories made me finally begin to know Minerva, from whom I had, back in 2003, just taken part of my user name. Reading Kelly’s gorgeous fiction – for instance Genius Loci (characters Rubeus Hagrid, Minerva McGonagall, Poppy Pomfrey, Aurora Sinistra, Pomona Sprout, Severus Snape, Aberforth Dumbledore, Argus Filch, and the Genius of the Place. Wordcount 6200) at recent![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
hoggywartyxmas) – is still an inspiration.
Talk About A Creator/Someone Who Inspired You.
I remember vividly how a lot of people, strangers (except through their fiction) and friends (who became friends thanks to our fiction) have inspired me since the day I entered fandom in August 2003. And this winter all of you in my access/subscription list here, and also people whose writing I’ve seen on LJ or AO3 but whom I haven’t found on DW, have inspired me – at least to all this rambling around Snowflake!
Since I have to pick one person, I want it to be
kelly_chambliss, who is here to see this – and for you all to meet – and who also was there for me before my hiatus, in 2009 and 2010. Kelly was new to HP fandom back then, still looking for places with more stories of the kind she was most interested in.(Oddly enough I can’t remember the exact beginning of it but) the two of us must have commented on each other’s small one-shots and gone on discussing our writing. And this amazing lady gave a chance to my post-OotP Remus novel (Remus Lupin and the Revolt of the Creatures – yes, I urge you to click the link, because you’ll see not only the humble beginning of my fic but also some of Kelly’s most extensive contribution, her concrit right there in the public comments, just as I wanted to leave it) which I had started writing six years earlier and posting on LiveJournal a month earlier. At my request she included beta corrections in her thoughtful, generously praising comments.
Kelly stayed loyal to me and my Remus novel, even though she was finding more of those fests and communities that she wanted to focus on. She went on – for a whole year – and commented quite as wonderfully on each of the twenty-one long chapters, until the story was completed and published in its edited form. This was extremely important for me, because during the long process of writing the story almost all of my original readers (on the small forum where I’d posted it as WiP) as well as later readers of my short stories had left the fandom, and in 2009 I thought I’d also lost the beta and dear friend whom I’d found on LJ in 2006. Without Kelly’s support it would have been harder for me to succeed in the final scenes and to believe the story was worth finally sharing on LJ and FictionAlley, and her comments helped me fix mistakes particularly in the early (previously unbeta’ed) chapters.
At the same time Kelly inspired me to explore new corners of HP fandom. Thanks to her I started reading more about female characters and older characters, and enjoying femslash. Her own wise and beautiful stories made me finally begin to know Minerva, from whom I had, back in 2003, just taken part of my user name. Reading Kelly’s gorgeous fiction – for instance Genius Loci (characters Rubeus Hagrid, Minerva McGonagall, Poppy Pomfrey, Aurora Sinistra, Pomona Sprout, Severus Snape, Aberforth Dumbledore, Argus Filch, and the Genius of the Place. Wordcount 6200) at recent
hoggywartyxmas) – is still an inspiration.
