Well i finally decided it is time to start out and do it. So i have some ideas but most of them have been done 4444444444444444444 times so i wana try something new. I was thinking going with Harry AU Longbottom BWL(i know been used) and harry still not being the bomb right away.

Heres a little crappy outline just some thoughts.

Plot: Neville Longbottom is BWL, Starts out with the whole voldemort seige on the Longbottoms and then Neville surviving and The uproar of the wizarding world. In this story neville is not super confident and is just as uneasy as he was in the books but less pathetic. Potters are a old pureblood family with a seat of the wizemgamot(spelling?) and are as old as the Malfoys and just as rich though because of James marrying Lily(mudblood as grandparent Potters call her in private) The Potter Grandparents try to mold Harry into the perfect Pureblood light wizard. Harry stats learnign magic theory at 4 and practically when he gets his practice wand at 8(no the Potters don't have an ancient artifact that can make/ be harrys wand when he is 6) Like every child until 11 they are not ready to be chosen by a wand because there magical cores havent even begin to develop. As he attends hogwarts Harry is faced with the situation of choosing between sides in the gryffindor house. Join Neville and his fan club or indirectly oppose him by starting his own group. Harry is friends with all the houses and Neville and him have brawls over the slytherins. There will be Time Skips etc and Harry progresily learns magic at a pace ahead of everyone to prove himself worth the Potter name and at the same time Prove himself to his father. Harry has mixed feelings about his mother both love and hate.ok etc etc you get the point.


Though i don't know if i should start when he's young or have a brief thing like3 chapters with that and time skip to when he's older like 5th year or something, because i have found young harry fics get old fast.

 

Why would marrying Lily make them rich?

 

There is no originality at all in this. This whole school thing rivalry has been way over done and but go ahead. If i were you though, i would skip after hogwarts is done for both harry and bwl so it can get on with the interesting stuff.

 

Rather than thinking, "Right, I want to write a story, I've got to think of an idea", it would probably be preferable to wait 'til a really good idea strikes you and then you think, "Yes, I have a good idea, now how can I write it best?".

The story will no doubt end up better the second way, and is more likely to be finished.

 

No the potters are already rich because they are an old Pureblood family
And as for originality i'm sorry i am just brainstorming perhaps if you gave me some insight i could tune my outline up a
little

Good point i just didn't want to wait forever and i wanted some experience anyway.

 

You have merely a setup - not the plot itself.

What happens when Harry hits 5th year or wherever you want to plug in? It's OK to write a school year fic, with numerous smaller plots intertwining, but you still need those plots figured out before you actually start writing.

As for the setup itself, it's nothing special. There's a whole array of NevileIsTheBWL fics and so far, I've seen nothing that will outright distinguish this one from the others. Of course, details can still pull this through, but for that, you'll need to be a really good writer; something that the quality of your post didn't indicate.

 

Here is what you have to do: Start writing. Thats it, just start writing and see what comes out, just go with the flow and things will lay themselves out, hopefully. There is nothing bad that could come out of this, just write, get better, do it if you like it, try to improve, and worst case scenario abandon the damn thing. Don't wait till an idea strikes you, make an idea and go with it. There is a very good chance that you won't finish your first story anyway, so why bother waiting and losing time? And if its been done already who cares, do it again and make it better.

 

Well? Now what?

 

There is nothing wrong with re-using an old plot line. The trick is putting an original twist on it - something to distinguish it from the thousands of other stories out there. That's the part that most people have trouble with, thus the influx of mindless drivel on ff.net.

It's a good idea NOT to post what you first write. Trust me, the stuff you first come up with will be things you probably won't want associated with your name.

 

But if i don't post it i won't know what other people may correct me on if i do. I would rather take off and crash then stay on the ground thinking about taking off.

Well maybe not but i still want to try, and i don't know yet but i think as with most things writing can be refined from experience and practice. And while there are a lot of Neville BWL stories Harry still seems the one who kills voldi or is still the best wand waver, i hope to diversify him a little and keep him good at one thing but not be the best at everything. Thank you for you constructive criticism though

Well technically anything if written right can be interesting though i don't think i can claim to be leading the revolution to bring a Aristocrat or pureblood supremacist Potter around though i may be one of the few.

Also i myself have been infected with a love of main characters and While Harry Potter is a intresting character he shouldent be the only character written in depth, or the best at everything you can be good. Anyway i'll probibley just write a teaser and see what happens and/or look at some challenges.

 

I'm afraid you misunderstood me.

My advice to you is to write until you like what you have written. Does it use good vocabulary? Do you have a decent plot line? Are your characterizations unique to the character? Is your story of sufficient length to be worth reading?

If yes is the answer to all of these questions, then post it.

 

Goose, is English your native language? If not, then you might want to try writing first in your first language to get a hang of fanfiction. As a sort of devil's advocate to Taure, you could try writing the most cliched piece of crap you could think of (but well written), as a sort of challenge, and then abandon it, and move on to what you actually want to do.

 

Well i not sure if it was my first i think it started the same time as russian but now my russian sucks from lack of use so yes english is my native language being born in the us and all.(i'm not sure whether you were just asking or assumed from my bad writing(if you did thats sad).
Oh should i post the cliched piece of crap publicly or selectively?

 

Goose you're Russian? Nice bro, I was born in Moscow and lived there till I was five, still fluent, you speak at all?

 

I'd suggest posting it here, and get a bit of feedback before let it out to the masses. That's what I did and it seems to have been quite successful for me.

BTW, what's this about abandoning first fics? I'm a bit protective of mine so far, but then again, it only has three chapters.

 

well technically ukrainian but thats bs because when my father left to Isreal it was still the Soviet Union, but i can consider myself Russian. I can speak pretty well but i read and write like crap(from lack of use) my family hates me for that lol.


Heres a attempt at written Russian with english characters:
ya zniou kack gaverite parouski ouchin harashou!

 

tagda eto narmalna, nado boudet pogovareit. TyphusHoN@gmail.com - msn.

 

Eh, yeah, your general lack of punctuation, run-on sentences and spelling mistakes gave me that impression. Anyway, post it on fanfiction.net, get some reviews, see what people say about your writing style. Get a beta.

 

sukin-sin ya boudu dadt teba an ne jopa

That hurt me so much(tears) i have been put down by a godly writer the world shall end....................run-in there just descriptive!!!!!

did you say-When you ????????????? i can't translate the rest.