I should be embarrassed by this...

[reynardo]

There's a lovely Lj community called pottersues, where they call out Really Bad Harry Potter Fanfic.

And once a year, one is encouraged to write said fanfic, according to the annual subject.

This year, being the 13th year of this foolishness (which I adore totally), the theme was ... Unlucky Sue. The number thirteen is seen as an unlucky number, so it's time for the minions to get their creative juices flowing and think up a good Anti Sue and/or Sympathy Sue. The bad luck for this Mary Sue type isn't real, but the Sue will tell you other wise. Simply remember that the world is against your Sue, but not you the writer.

(Details here, if you want the lot)

Um... so I ficced. Deliberately, badly, ficced. Ficced something so out of canon, so odd, that I really will never finish it.

And it got a lot "favourites" and four glowing reviews, and more bloody attention than my sshg_giftfest piece. Typical.

I warn you now. It's not anything I'm really proud of, it will never be continued, but I'm glad I can still pull them in. I give you "A Run of Luck".

Hermione has fled Britain, and has ended up in a dead-end town in Kentucky, where she works as a pole-dancer. And no-one knows she's there. So is it a co-incidence when someone she recognises turns up? Or just another horrid incident in her run of bad luck?

You may go back to your keyboards, weeping, if you wish.

Comments

[gelsey.livejournal.com]

That sounds like fun!

And of course it does. Because good fic is so rarely properly appreciated.

[helenarickman.livejournal.com]

That was so bad you left us hanging! Just when the story was getting good!
Actually, I thought it was rather cute. And for a lady from Melbourne, you can intimately describe the dreariness of rural America.
And I added pottersues to my list. It seems to be a fun group.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

We drove through it last year, although I didn't go to any pole-dancing venues. But it wasn't hard to do a bit of googling on towns and amenities and such.

We went from Columbus to Louisville, on our way to Iowa. Saw the limestone caves under the city - that was fascinating! And that was the only time our GPS didn't serve us well - Louisville had so many roadworks that I couldn't find a route out of the city for ages.

[helenarickman.livejournal.com]

D'uh! I remember now - you posted about your trip!