in lieu of an actual update...

i don't know how many people here are reading the huffledraco series - of which one part has thus far been posted, Learning to Fly. well, i've got a lot of nice comments on it in the last few months (has it been rec'd somewhere? not that i've been able to find) which has been a lovely surprise, given that it's genfic, which is always so prone to slipping through the cracks. and it's been well over a year since i posted that! so, while my big scary phd thesis is due in under three months, i have been slowly chipping away at the second fic in the series, mostly outlining, but gearing up to keep writing soon. i... have had a lot of trouble writing children and teenagers recently. but i'm also coming to terms with the fact that this is my current magnum opus (until i get my arse in gear and finish my massive r/s canon divergence fic) so i really want to press on and do the thing justice. and god, i've got some good stuff yet to come.

so while i can't yet update the fic, and because just saying i'm working on it doesn't feel like enough, here is the rough outline of the series as it stands:

1. Learning to Fly [first year; posted]
2. Enemies of the Heir [second year; currently being written]
3. Écossaise [fourth year, yule ball]
4. To the Victor [fourth year, end]
5. Draco's Army [fifth year]
6. The Summer of Discontent [the summer between fifth and sixth year]
7. Loser's Lurgy [sixth year]
8. currently untitled seventh year fic
9. at least one post-hogwarts fic

note how it's not linear in terms of the books! nothing actually happens with draco in PoA and getting him involved in the harry stuff would've felt a bit contrived. also not all of these fics are going to be the same length; some will be fairly short, others may get longer. (at this point EotH is looking like it'll be the same length as LtF, maybe a little longer.) anyway, i've tried to title these fics in a way that makes sense wrt the content - e.g. an ecossaise is a scottish country dance. i'm holding myself back from saying much more, because i don't want to spoil anything, but i'm also like !!! i just want to talk about some of the stuff in these fics!!!!!! there's just so much i've put into this... one day i'll probably end up writing side fics too, or at least taking requests for some alternate POVs on events that people might be interested in.

well, try not to get too excited, because i don't even know when i'll post EotH. but it's happening!