I don't know about this story. It is way too AU, with no explanation whatsoever. Though it is mildly enjoyable, I tend to dislike a story who has the female hero be all independent and powerful, and then suddenly be ambushed every five minutes in order to be saved.
There were also missing words and stuff like that.
Meh.

 

But Ron IS stupid, lazy and arrogant within that fic'.

 

We've until now seen like 10 lines of Ron. While he is lazy, arrogant, and stupid, we for example don't anything about his magical abilities, or whatever. I still think that it could be interesting.

 

While Insecure isn't particularly well written or original (it gives off the feeling of being A Black Comedy rip off) it's still kind of a fun read. It's nothing special, but at least it's entertaining, which is more than can be said about most of the fanfiction written these days.

 

One More Time by potterfanchuck reviews
AU summer before 4th year. Rated for language and sexual situations. Harry/Fleur - Bumbledore bashing, Weasley bashing. The story starts July 31, 1994 befor the Triwiz tournament. Powerful Harry but not godlike smart harry takes no crap.
Rated: M - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9,455 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 12-27-10 - Harry P. & Fleur D

Not read it yet and it's clearly going to be shit based on that summary but new Harry/Fleur and a 9k chapter is something to read.

 

The first twenty or so lines don't bode well with me. Sounds like a typical indy!super!powerful! Harry. Just like the summary.
EDIT:

Need I say more?

Btw, has anything come out of Andro's great motivational speech?

 

That right there tells you everything you need to know about the story's direction.

 

I only read about 2,000 words, but here's the review I left..

There are many small spelling mishaps and grammatical errors that could easily be cleared up with some editing, and at times the story is awkward and stilted, this could also be taken care of with simple editing. Furthermore Harry's had a block on his magical core and has only been using 5% of his power? He won't be "all powerful or anything but he will be stronger than Dumbledore?" Someone who is apparently the most powerful Wizard of a generation, that sounds all powerful to me. Finally, Harry immediately comes to the conclusion that A). His soulmate is at Beauxbaton's and B). It is Fleur. Why?His soulmate could be at any of the three schools, there isn't much logic to that bit.

So he is extremely powerful, extremely rich, and is going to be a master of wandless magic, it's like you've thrown as many 3 year old cliches together as possible. Overall this story has nothing original and no redeeming qualities.

 

That quoted passage by the addictedforlife reeks of the author attempting to justify their story from exactly what sirius009 did. Call it for the cliche' ridden crapfest it is.

Ugh. I just read the opening couple lines. Closed it straight away. Less than 1/5.

 

I hope the others are making good progress, but come Saturday I'll be posting the first chapter of my story. I have around 5500 words, need to work on hammering out the last two scenes.

 

No, just no...

 

I've officially moved on from the 'exhaustive planning' phase to the 'struggling to write the introduction' phase, but I have a good 5000 words down and a very solid plan to go off of. I have hope for it to become a little simpler to write once the exposition is out of the way and I can find some character voices, especially Fleur's. But yeah, once I get going, I don't stop until its finished and the first draft of Breach of Contract only took me two weeks, so this'll be about the same if not a little longer.

And all because of Andro's motivational speechifying. :awesome

 

I've started writing my planned Harry/Fleur story and am three chapters done out of a planned twelve.

I have decided to emulate Perspicacity and start posting the chapters only after the entire story is completed, given that my update rates otherwise are horrendous.

@andro: Looking forward to reading your story.

 

I eagerly await the stories to be posted!

 

Wait, there is a "planning" phase?

You learn something new everyday. I'd better go delete what I'd written so far, and actually plan it first. Probably ...

 

Depends on how you write, I guess. Some people can just sit in front of the monitor and keep typing with only a vague idea in their mind and a few hours later have something resembling an interesting plot.

I, on the other hand, cannot write without having planned the whole story from beginning to end. It's a time consuming process but it also means that I don't get stuck in the story somewhere and has less chances of the story being abandoned.


Also, is there no one else, who took up Andro's challenge other than MattSilver 3k? I don't include myself, since, I'd already planned to write that story all along, andro's speech just motivated me to start working on it. Though it also gave me some nice idea for an interesting Harry/Fleur one-shot that I may just start writing one of these days.

 

Huh. Me. Though I'm still stuck in the planning phase. I have my plot bunny, but am currently working on the plot.

 

There's a planning phase for me all the time (Similar to how Johnny described it above - Breach of Contract was a solid three month planning that started off an an idea ten months old, and I was constantly outlining stuff as I went. Rewrite outlines. Eugh.) but I should especially go for broke this time, because time travel is involved and I intend to live up to my own ramblings.

 

While there are several good plot bunnies that have been posted, maybe the writers don't feel like reading 76 pages worth of discussion looking for inspiration. Luckily, I had nothing better to do today so I took it upon myself to compile all the H/F plot bunnies that I could find in here.

The next is a continuation of the above ^ bunny.

There is more to this idea and had a few contributions/additions by the OP of it and Perspicacity on page 34 and 35 of this thread.

Continuation/extrapolation of the above.

I tried not to include any that were claimed by the OP's of the ideas, but I'm hardly perfect so I suggest PM'ing them. Needless to say, I hope this proves useful to any aspiring H/F writers.

*disclaimer: I didn't read through every single bunny so their quality is suspect.