Adventures of Harriet Potter discussion forum

Hello all! As my travel opportunities haven't proven as fruitful as I'd like, I'm again re-purposing the blog back to my writing. So from here on it is to serve as the sort of comment space for my writings on fanfiction.net because it's easier for me to correspond with readers here than it is there.

For those who don't know, Adventures of Harriet Potter is a re-imagining of the Harry Potter books from the perspective of Harry being a girl. This is not an entire gender-swap, it focuses pretty exclusively on Harry in that regard (and Ron to keep the best-friend dynamic going). It also expands much further into the wizarding world than original canon went. As of this point I have rewritten the first book (added to by 34k words), and the second book (which ended up being more than doubled in length, from 85141 words in canon to 175497 words). I'm currently about 3/4 of the way through the third book, and already it's surpassed canon length by 25k words. So for anyone who doesn't have the link, here's the links books!

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955849/1/The-Adventures-of-Harriet-Potter-Year-1
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955917/1/The-Adventures-of-Harriet-Potter-Year-2
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9489540/1/The-Adventures-of-Harriet-Potter-Year-3

Please don't be afraid to pop back here and comment after reading! I LOVE discussing with readers!

Repurposing of Blog

Salutations all!

Just stopping by to say check out my repurposed blog http://ayoungmanscommonsense.blogspot.ie/ to catalog my new life in Ireland :).

And when I say "new home," I mean it. I've blended in pretty well here so far!

Long Time No See and a Major Announcement

Hello all! Sorry for being so absent for so long, just stopping in to say that after a year of working on my practice project of "The Adventures of Harriet Potter," I have polished up my skills enough to where I feel confident working on my own original writing again. I have a project in mind and am hammering out the details. If anyone out there has any publishing advice, words of wisdom, etc, please feel free to give it!

The project will be a series of books in the young-adult genre. I'm definitely not ready to make an announcement yet as to plotlines and such until I am sure of what my rights are... don't want to "give someone else" the same idea and have them jump on it before I can actually carry it out, after all...

A return, "The Adventures of Harriet Potter," and a defense of fan-fictions

Well, been a while since I did much of well, anything, here on old Blogger.  I have good reason.  Recently, some friends approached me with a proposition. "How would the Harry Potter series have gone differently had the protagonist been female instead of male?" Being a historian by hobby and most interested in subjects like sociology, this was too tempting a project to take on.  I also started doing more research into it as well, and frankly was rather saddened by what I saw.  The article that struck me the most being "The adventures of Harriet Potter would never have done as well as Harry Potter." This pretty much instantly set off my chauvinism detector and it finally put me completely over the edge to actually sit down and write the reimagined world of Harriet Potter.

So, for most of the past year or so, I have been piecing together just how such things would happen. Fortunately, my friends had already done a great deal of the leg work surrounding characters and even numerous new characters as well. So it is simply my job to create a coherent, enjoyable story out of it all.

I know, it usually goes entirely against my principles as a writer to do these sorts of projects. However, my own brother described it to me in a way that killed off all my scruples. He described to me that what I would be doing would be essentially like being a cover band. You play more or less your own version of other peoples' songs to get noticed for your talents. So essentially... yes, that's what fan-fiction writing is. Unfortunately, not many take it nearly seriously enough for it to be taken very seriously by anyone. Unless you know the right place to look...


And so, I've been primarily working on the site deviantArt.com where I have now posted six new chapters of my newest project "The Adventures of Harriet Potter: Year One." Yes, I picked "The Adventures of Harriet Potter" specifically after reading that article. And so I'd like to ask you all to please, take the time to stop by, have a look and enjoy a magical world through brand new eye all over again with "The Adventures of Harriet Potter: Year One - Chapter 1 - The Violinist"


http://the-mind-of-kleinnak.deviantart.com/gallery/37892096#/d52kjxf

New Venue

Hey ya'll, just a little stop in to tell you all about my new DA page I've made for my works.  The website it http://the-mind-of-kleinnak.deviantart.com/, please stop by and check it out!

Another update to The First Brother

Salutations!  An odd greeting for me being arachnophobic, but I tolerate cartoon spiders.  Announcing the next big set of updates to The First Brother.  Hit the link here or right above this and check it out! http://kleinnak.blogspot.com/p/first-brother.html

Well that was quick!  Announcing the first updates to The First Brother, added most of a new chapter and about another 1,500 words from before.  Did a bit of updating and editing in the earlier chapters too.  Catch it here, or click the link above! http://kleinnak.blogspot.com/p/first-brother.html