Writer brain (of fan fiction at least) here. I belive everyone no matter their actual ability should have the tools to write their own shit or as close to it as they can. Those skills are
- Something to write with.
Even if you can just get a good outline going or a snippet or whatever and post that into the void you might get lucky and have someone else like it and adopt it but the more detail you put the more your vision it is.
Included below (in pink) as payment for me getting on my little soapbox is an outline for a fic like this
Step one is write gibberish. Whatever comes into your brain goes on the page, mostly unfiltered. I barely ever check that mine is in actual words like there's usually a lot of abbreviations and shit I cannot comprehend later on. Just gotta get brain on page. Example:
Have draco eat the cum from harry ass harrys like noooo it's minne! Get your own. Abd dracos like you cabt say no. You have to dhare master said. And harry like fuck off and they bucker till vmrt and hmbrll yell "boys!" Together. Like parents.
From my "Oi potter catch" notes (where Voldemort litterally writes in his series of Harry Diarys btw). Who is hmbrll supposed to be? That's my half asleep brain typing "Bella".
Step 2 is the clean up and organisation of thoughts for legibility to share with others. I don't bother to clean up things I write myself.
VOLDEMORT BECOMES GIDDY TEENAGE GIRL WRITING IN HIS DIARY AND DOTTING HIS I'S WITH HEARTS (bold for emphasis that this is the point of the fic. Can change to "is" instead of "becomes" just skip entries)
Like, giddy and writing in his diary? Cool. Going with it. Journal fic lets you avoid dialogue and directions you can just write about feelings. He calls it a Journal because he's writing about his life as a document for future prosperity it's not a place for personal feelings or much truth, but later on in the story he starts writing private giddy thoughts in a Diary. Growth and shit. (If you want giddy quicker just skip entries till you're happy. I just like murdermort becoming lovey dovey.) Jpurnal entries should be addressed as "Journal" Diary as "Diary" to clearly denote separate texts. THESE ENTRIES ARE NOT CHAPTERS each one could be a single paragraph. You wanna save the long writing for moments of reflection and realisation.
((Insert dates later)) (dates are unimportant, and always come later.)
- Journal entry about how Harry potter represents the hope of the muggle-lovers and why that's dangerous for wizarding kind (Don't actually write these entries yet either. People get stuck there. Don't get stuck need to put brain on paper.)
- journal entry about how weak and useless potter is and it is through the protection of his mothers magic and dumb luck rather than his own power or talent that he remains alive but of course that survival makes him.more of a symbol and even though ots so beneath you you must kill him. Make mention of future generations being able to understand why he had to kill a child despite not actually wanting to and how it's the lights fault so audience gets a sense of difference between Journal and Diary.
- a few sparse deatils about harry intel.
- separate "notes" with LOADS more details of harry, have some things underlined like Voldemort thinks they're important but it's shot like his favourite team.
- Diary entry. Voldemort has been over focused on Harry and needs a brain dumping space that he will burn later. Mostly complains about how he is so fixated on potter
- Diary Descriptions of ways to kill potter, many of which involve manipulating him to dates as a means of luring him away because he is obviously weak hearted and desperate for love
- Diary discussing how amusing it would be to trick Harry into falling in love before murdering him
- Diary entry of intell gathering watching Hary all the time but it's for work, obviously, no other reason.
- Harry uses an anonymous matchmaking service. Voldemort intercepts and begins making Harry fall in love
- Journal entry about how great he is at spying on the enemy. No one will ever know how he bypassed the fidelus on Grimauld Place
- Diary Stealing Harrys clothes for spying. Imagining watching Harry shower or sleep without him knowing (very I's dotted with knives but it's a close as a 70yo man who's never loved is going to get before he realises he's in stalkery love) add in about Harry being objectively attractive and therefore not a disgusting chore to spy on on such a way
- Diary making a room for Harry to live in while Voldemort spends time gloating. The room is to Harry's tastes and definitely not in the dungeons but let's not examine that
- include somewhere Fantasies that Harry will cry "pretty tears" when kidnapped.
- Journal entry on flawless victory
- once has Harry more notes on what his habits are. Could do a contents page that shows like all the charts he has. Definitely treating this as a sort of scientific study into Harry's dumb luck.
- Only realises it's a crush after he kisses Harry one day by accident and gets all freaked out about it doesn't understand why. They only walked into each other and had their mouths hit. (The realisation one should be one of the longest entries in the fic. Potentially a chapter by itself) Voldemort processes this as "of course I'm capable of love. I'm capable of anything. I just have to have complete control over the one I love and I'm set
- Goal change to making Harry fall in love with Voldemort.
- Voldemort writing giddy in Diary whenever Harry speaks to him or interacts with him. It makes him Happy and he wants to be the only thing on Harry's mind.
- Diary entry about casually touching Harry to desensitise him to Voldemort's touch. It still hurts Harry but if Harry is hurting he is thinking about Voldemort
- starts healing any scars that Voldemort did not give him. Has to tie him down to put the potions on. Writes a lot about him being tied down
- Tracks results of which action get which response. And writes about how he wants Harry to act. Working but Voldemort feels unfulfilled. He is getting rhe behaviour he desires but is not feeling the same giddiness. It feels hollow.
- eventually realises that if he wants Harry to really love him he has to treat him like a person not as something to be changed to what Voldemort wants This is a major revelation for Voldemort and should be as big as the "I love Harry" entry.
- love growing between them cutesty cutesy fluff
- end entry should be Harry's years later he knew Voldemort would have tracked himself falling in love too. He tracks everything. Voldemort is such a liar. He's lucky to have a forgiving husband. He's not shocked, at all, to find out that Voldemort didn't know to treat Harry like a person at the start snd bets Voldemort still reads this Diary. Now Voldemort owes him a night out at the Leaky where he actually interacts with Harry's friends like a normal person. Sucked in. Victory for Harry.
Geeze that looks like a lot. Anyway basic outline done. Step 3 is you have a different brain so you get that little itch inside your head that says this is wrong and you add and remove dot points until you are happy. And then do what you want with it. And give yourself a sandwich for your hard work
