I'm 24 years old and I have a Literary Studies degree in my backpocket.

I have always loved reading books and stories, but I love it even more when I can write something of my own. I have been busy writing stories ever since I learned to write. But only when I was sixteen did I take it up as a serious, and sometimes fulltime, hobby. This was when my best friend (lucerito-del-alma is her penname; check it out)) first introduced me to the concept of fanfiction.

She and I also wrote a story together a while back. Our url is: www.fanfiction.ws/~25hours, our penname being 2.5Hours, in accordance with the time it (then) took us to visit each other. The story is called:

- Intercepted: the Malfoy Chronicles.- (or, as we like to call it, the M-files.)
After that fateful night in HBP on top of the Astronomy Tower, the Malfoy family and those closest to them, must learn to live with the consequences of their actions. The correspondance between them shows that even seemingly unattainable Gods can fall.

I hope you'll find time to check it out!

Now as for me... :

-Stories in posting:

none at the moment...

Unfortunately, due to thesis stress and work I have been able to write very little.

I have also been working on a story/book in Dutch with another friend of mine. This is a (post)modern re-writing of the tale of Elektra form the Greek mythology in the shape of a detective story. We started this project in 2009 and I have to say it's been going well.

I have also been working on a fairytale in Dutch, and that is even more challenging to write than the Elektra story. If anyone has a good name for a prince, do let me know!

However, these two projects have been taking up most of my free writing time, wich is why I haven't been able to write any new fanfiction lately.

Stories yet to come:

As you can see, I'm experimenting with a few characters, different viewpoints and different ways to handle certain characters; I'm trying to make Pansy likable, Lucius pitiable and I even tried to show a different side of Mrs Norris (see Sweet Nothings and Curiosity Killed the Cat).

Other than that, I'm concentrating on one-chapter stories at the moment. Most of them are just little plotbunnies right now, hopping around in my brain until I'll give them some attention (and a carrot or two). But here they are anyway:

- Throw me to the wolves: (HP) Based on the feeling I get everytime I hear certain lines from the RHCP song 'easily'. Centred around Pansy at the end of book 6. A young girl in a world that has been turned upside down, having to choose which side she'll take in the inevitable war that's looming ahead. The title is a working title for now, so it might change once I post it.

- Once You Go Black: (HP) Still not completely sure on the setting but I'm aiming for humour, centred around a younger Bellatrix. (If that ever manages to make any sense).

- Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus: (HP) The title says it all; never tickle a sleeping Draco. He doens't take kindly to being teased.

- I still want to try and write Catharsis, a story about Pansy (non-canon) and how she has handled her forced engagement with Draco form the age of eleven, and what has happened to change her into a bitter and dissapointed young woman so early in life. Thanks to some new (Dutch) writing friends, I have decided to write this story from a completely different angle, so maybe I'll finally find the right inspiration to finish it.

Well, that's it for now!

Enjoy reading my fics and, if you don't mind, leave a review ;) I like knowing what other people think!

~Raven55