[momoe]

Hello. My name is Maureen, aka momoe, and on the off chance that you've read my stories (or just want to know more about me ) feel free to ask any questions you want.

TTFN

[FredandIzzy4ever]

Hello! I shall ask some questions

What's your favorite HP book?

What's your favorite character?

What's your favorite story you have written?

What's your favorite story you have read?

[momoe]

Oh yay! Questions!

What's your favorite HP book? My favorite book is Goblet of Fire. My favorite part is the Krum/Hermione/Harry fabricated love triangle at Easter when Hermione's egg is smaller. Cracks me up every time, just how wrong Mrs. Weasley (and everyone else) has it.

What's your favorite character? My favorite character in the books is Ron. But for me, writing canon is very restricting, so my favorite character to write are minor characters like Neville, Seamus...my fav was George until DH when Fred died, I don't think I'm very good with angsty scenes. I tried my hand at a post DH story centering on George, but so far it's not look too good.

What's your favorite story you have written? Honestly, my favorite story to write is which ever story I'm writing at the moment. Lately I've been in to the NextGen characters and have about four stories started, plus a one-shot up. We'll see how those end up. I've only done one story with a main ship (Harry/Ginny) but it's AU and I'm currently stuck. Blah!

What's your favorite story you have read? There are so many great stories on the site! I really don't read much Marauders. I love Settling the Score by A Fountain Pen, We Gryffies by gryffindorseeker, Delicate by padfoot4ever, Grady by sioux343. The Virgin Count (Wizadora) is hilarious! And then classics like Murder on the Hogwarts Express, Hogwarts Sanitarium, and Come Ready and See Me. My Favorite's is three pages long and growing!

Thanks for the questions!

[baletgir]

Hello. I posted on your thread about needing a beta for Sweet Sixteen. I said I would read it and be back to you. I read it partly and left you a message. I then completed it and left u a third message. I was then notified that I hadn't throughly read the rules and that you can't post two or more times in a row. So I went back just to see if they still posted what I had written and I couldn't find the thread. So anyways I guess I will have to tell you here. I love the story, and I normally don't like next generation fics, but yours is an exception. I saw what you wanted to be checked and I think I can help you there, even-though my strong areas are grammar and spelling and converting from IM to readable english! haha. While reading your story I did find some areas that I think I can help you improve. I am not that experienced at being a Beta, I have really on left corrections in review boxes and such. I did find about 5 corrections in a fan fiction with hundreds of reads and 3 betas. I can probably do a chapter in about a week for you. WOW that was long, but I had a lot to tell you. So there you have it. and also I agree with the color coding you had mentioned for mistakes. I would prefer to then send those to you through E-mail. My e-mail address is: Tapjazbh10@Aol.com you can reach me there or just reply here and hopefully I didn't break another rule and I will be able to find this!

[gitika]

I found thee ive been looking for your forum since the first day i joined the site and i finally found them
ill ask you questions soon once i think of some to ask right now i need to figure out how to save this thread so i can find it later

[Emerald_Girl]

Hey there Momoe! I thought I'd ask you some random questions

1) Since you started your review thread, are there any ships youve grown to like or grown to hate?

2) Which your favourite story that you've written so far?

3) Why did you join HPFF?

Have fun

This post has been edited by Emerald_Girl: 16 August 2008 - 04:12 AM

[momoe]

1) Since you started your review thread, are there any ships youve grown to like or grown to hate?
I've never really liked Draco/Hermione fics or Ron/Lavender fics, and that has not changed since I started my review thread.
I got requests for some really good Sirius/OC and Remus/OC fics, during which time I had never read a Marauder era fic, and have grown to LOVE those pairings. Now I read Marauder fics on my own time...

2) Which your favourite story that you've written so far?
My favorite story of mine is Defying Gravity because I've put so much time and research into it. I like all my one-shots, too, because I posted them and haven't looked at them since. I could probably go through and pic each one-shot apart and be like "what was I thinking?" but that'd be a waste!

3) Why did you join HPFF?
I started writing FF eight years ago but my problem was I didn't have any place to post it, so no one was reading it, so I felt like it was a waste of time. So, after, like, three years I took a three year break. Once I started again, I couldn't stop writing. I was thinking that writing FF this second time was just a phase and I didn't want to start a story and not be able to finish it, but when a year past and I was still writing I decided to post a story. Honestly, though, I had been posting on FF.net and the reason I joined HPFF was because I like to make banners and this site allows banners with stories...

Thanks for the questions!

[Emerald_Girl]

No problem! They were very interesting answers! The Marauders era is good, isnt it? And it must be good to see youve improved FF net looks to bland to me, so yay for HPFF, eh?

[momoe]

FF net is very bland. I don't even post there anymore. I'm so glad I found HPFF. Otherwise I'd still be reading from canon-only FF sites!

[RitaSkeeter]

love all your stories, (especially defying gravity!) and i have a few questions to ask about that very same fic!!:

How long does it take you to write a chappie??

What gave you the idea for nat??

Do you make your own graphics??

Why is james so secretive about his wife??

thats it, I think!! lovelove..

RitaSkeeter

[momoe]

love all your stories, (especially defying gravity!) and i have a few questions to ask about that very same fic!!:

Thanks so much!!

How long does it take you to write a chappie??
For Defying Gravity I usually like my chapters between 3,000 and 4,000 words. Depending on my free time, one chapter usually takes 3 hours. Sometimes I will write the scenes one at a time with breaks in between. The first 4 chapters I wrote all in 1 sitting, I stayed up all night writing. Then, after the rough draft is done I'll sit on it for a few days and then reread it. I was having a lot of trouble with Chapter 5 (I believe. The one where Nat and Albus leave) because I wasn't quite sure that was where I wanted to go with the story, especially since most of the reviewers were saying they thought Ginny would be okay with it. They don't knw Ginny's backstory, though, so I decided to keep it as it was. There was about a month between Chapters 4 and 5 because of that...

In answer to your question: I can get a chapter cranked out and read to post in about a week. I try to keep at least 2 chapters ahead of the posted so I they're ready to go into the queue as soon as the previous is posted.

What gave you the idea for nat??
Nat is modeled after one of my best friends. The idea for the whole story came to me one day when I was browsing through stories and there was, literally, three or four nextgen stories in a row where Rose gets pregnant with Scorpius's baby. Don't get me wrong, 'Delicate' is one of my favorite stories on the site. Then I thought about it and brainstormed a huge plot out of it and was so excited that I sat down and started writing. I never really intended to post this because I thought no one would read it. Guess i was wrong, huh?

Do you make your own graphics??
I do. It's one of the reasons I started posting on HPFF. I usually have the banner made before a story is posted. I love having graphics and making them, so I always have chapter graphics. I'm not the best, I'll admit, but I'm getting better.

Why is james so secretive about his wife??
There's a whole subplot about this, so I don't want to get too far into it, but I can tell you a little bit. James didn't have a big huge wedding like Ginny would have wanted, and didn't even introduce her to his family before getting married. He's a Quidditch player, and doesn't live at home, but that's not really an excuse, right? He also embarrassed because of her job and the circumstances behind their marriage. That'll play a big part in his scenes in the upcoming chapters (10 or 11, not 9 - but 9's a doozy with the James/Jennifer plot).

Just a clue for you to ponder: remember, James is a Quidditch player and has to travel all over the world...

Thanks for asking me questions! If you have more, feel free!

[RitaSkeeter]

ok, moemoe... looking at your reply to my review, you say hat the beta never replied.. am I right????
well, if you're still looking for a beta, i'm keen and happy to oblige, my method is email as well...
if you already have a beta, or are deciding to go it alone, good luck with defying gravity, and I look forward to reading the next chapter!! reply here if the anwser is yes...

lovelove
~Rita xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[momoe]

momoe here! So, I know it's been a long time since I updated 'Defying Gravity.' I just added Chapter 9: Slim Chances to the queue, but I thought I'd give a little spoiler to anyone who wants it.

Here goes, hope you like it:


"Thank you so mu – " Ginny started, but the mediwitch cut her off.

"You are Albus's mother, I presume?"

"Ginny Potter." They shook hands and then Ginny introduced Harry.

"Well," Darlene said, turning back towards Nat, "I noticed an abnormality in the sonogram from yesterday, and since I'm here, I thought I might be able to take a look?" Nat nodded, her eyes wide and worried and Darlene turned to Ginny.

"I wouldn't want to intrude on your Christmas Eve plans, Mrs. Potter."

"Wait, what?" Albus burst out. "There's something wrong? Please tell me there's nothing wrong."

"I just want to take a look, Mr. Potter. Just a quick little check and then I'll be on my way."

"It's okay, Alby," Nat squeezed his fingers. Albus nodded and Darlene went to her kit and began pulling out instruments.

"I'm sorry, Natalya, but we are going to have to do this the old fashioned way. Mr. and Mrs. Potter, if you could please step outside…"



well...?

This post has been edited by momoe: 08 September 2008 - 02:47 AM

[momoe]

Chapter 10 of Defying Gravity will be up soon! I'm also going through lots of editing for 'Papa Don't Preach' and hopefully will have Chapter 7 of that out soon. Here's a cute little exerpt from Chapter 10 of Defying Gravity. Let me know what you think!

"Just eat it," came the exasperated voice from across the bed. Her head snapped up to find her boyfriend, lounged against the footboards in a pair of flimsy pyjama bottoms and a tee shirt, his hair messy, his eyes tired, staring at her over a book. She tilted her head sideways to get a view at the title.

'Twinspirational: Real-Life Advice From Pregnancy Through the First Year'

She smiled. "Excuse me?"

Albus sighed, allowing the book to fall onto the bed in front of him. He fell forward and propped himself up on one hand and looked at her. "You know you're going to eat it anyway. It's food, and, let's face it, you've been eating a lot of food lately. So don't torture yourself. Mediwitch Christensen said it's completely normal for you to eat everything in sight and start gaining weight, so, please, save yourself some time and despair and just eat the pickle."

Nat looked into his eyes. He was tired. Moody. He hadn't been sleeping well in the days since they found out they were expecting twins. Victoire and Teddy had pretty much left them alone after the holidays, leaving Jade in nursery school while they both worked. Nat and Albus only really saw them at dinner, which Nat reluctantly prepared, justifying that the elder couple was allowing her and Albus to stay with them for free, the least she could do is make a few meals. Besides, she reasoned, she needed the practice.

She decided to let Albus's bad mood slide, this time, and picked up the pickle spear off of the plate. Then, she picked up the bowl of blackberry jam and dunked the pickle into it, dragging it up the side of the bowl to make sure the jam stayed on the oddly shaped pickle. She licked her lips.

"Wait," Albus said. Nat looked up to find him bringing the book back in front of his face: over his eyes, to be more precise.

She shrugged her shoulders and bit into the pickle, savouring the bitterness and sweetness all at once. She finished the pickle in three bites before banishing the dishes to the kitchen and licking her fingers clean.

"All finished."</SPAN>

This post has been edited by momoe: 23 September 2008 - 07:30 PM

[Leo072491]

Hey Momoe

I was just curious, out of all of your stories, which is your favorite?

~Leo