I am way overthinking this... (Kaleidoscope manifesto)

[shimotsuki]

...but it's so ironic that the Remus biography was released just as I've been making a push to seriously finish Kaleidoscope. As much fun as it was to get more background information, it has shut down my fanfic brain just as effectively as DH did until I decided to write them a new ending. ;)

Seriously, what's hard about this is I've always prided myself on being strictly canon-compliant (except for that pesky death thing), and now by definition Kaleidoscope can't be -- I've got too many specific details in there that we now know aren't what JKR imagined for them.

So I think to get over the writer's block problem, I just need to make myself some new ground rules for finishing Kaleidoscope. Here goes: For anything that happened before Remus makes his first appearance in canon, I will hew to the new information from the bio. So this includes Remus's childhood, parents' names and histories, and so on. (I do have to assume that Lyall dies prior to OotP, but I don't think the bio explicitly contradicts this.) But from the time-frame of PoA onward, Kaleidoscope is compliant with book-canon only.

I think I can work with this. And venting about it here has already made me feel better. ;)
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Comments

[katyhasclogs.livejournal.com]

I am picturing you making exactly the face that Remus is in your icon!

Anyway, I can totally see where you're coming from with this. It must feel somewhat like you've had the rug pulled out from under your feet, because it's impossible to un-know the things we've read in the bio, and yet you've already worked to fill in some of those gaps yourself...

I think it's very sensible to make yourself new rules, and I'd do the same in your position. If I ever dust off my vast amounts of half-written fic (and I do feel tempted, every so often), it's something I'll have to work through too.

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

I am picturing you making exactly the face that Remus is in your icon!

Yes, and I'm holding up the new bio like a twice-used teabag! LOL

I think it's very sensible to make yourself new rules, and I'd do the same in your position.

As long as I've got rules, I'm contented, lol. Sort of like Hermione in that way, I suppose...

If I ever dust off my vast amounts of half-written fic (and I do feel tempted, every so often)

...I would not complain if you did!

(huldrejenta and I were thinking that it might be time for a summer R/T meme. Maybe we should really do this...)