Facebook Timeline and something I'm working on

For those reading this--I'm assuming that, thus far, most if not all of my readers are my Facebook friends--you're probably aware of the new(ish) Facebook timeline. I was actually hoping to hold out on it until I made my final decision as to whether to accept it or not, but Facebook made the choice for me. To be honest, it felt a little odd--having a visual record of all of my posts and other stuff that I've made since I got on there. I've been looking over it, reminiscing somewhat, and pruning the more spammy bits off of it. And I think I can live with this.

• It was odd reading the status updates that really had no context behind them. I mean, normally, I can look on there, find a random update, and understand why I did that. And then I find one that makes me go, "...huh?"
• I'll have to go through more of these updates and such, but I enjoyed finding those past updates that either meant a lot to me back then for different reasons or became something greater. Even if I know it means next to nothing to anyone else that doesn't get it.

For a few months, I've been not-completely-seriously working on a story based on the Harry Potter series. Right now, I'm only giving out the link (here) to the "Brainstorming/Ideas/Rough Draft" Document for it. All of that will hopefully become the Final Draft, which I'm hoping to post on here--more than likely, chapter by chapter.

The story centres on the character Alexander Rosethorn, a reasonably good (with all things considered) Slytherin, and his journey through Hogwarts and life, along with the rest of his friends. He's a contemporary of Harry and his friends, so out of wanting to match things up with the books I was planning on making each part correspond with each book. Which I'm sure I'll end up undoing, but it's what I've decided on doing right now. So, I see Parts 1 and 2 being the ones where the characters are established and fleshed out, though I'm not sure yet what to do about Parts 3 and 4. Part 5 is when things get interesting.

I'm also posting this because I'd really appreciate it if you read it, commented, and maybe throw out some (hopefully positive) suggestions about it--I'm basically looking for a beta reader (or readers) to go over it. I'll be honest and admit that while I'm decent enough with coming up with ideas, the whole getting-it-off-the-ground bit is a completely different matter. When I said that I wasn't completely seriously working on it, I'm either not sure what to write or just can't be bothered to do so--having someone to prod me into developing more of it will be very helpful. That, along with the fact that I haven't read the books in quite a while (I basically stopped at Goblet of Fire), haven't seen any of the movies after GoF, and I'm just trying to learn what I can off of the internet on occasion. There's a couple of other things that are nagging me about this, but it's not really worth going into.

(For Yani/someone whose English isn't perfect/someone who's just confused: if anything I've written doesn't make any sense, just ask. I was writing this partly under the assumption that my readers knew what I was talking about, but I have to remind myself of these things.)

Introductory Post

Hello, and welcome to my blog LDNester. I see myself using this to write about the things going on in my life, some of my creative writings, interesting things I find on the internet... You know, what many would consider the usual things to find here.

In a couple of weeks, I will be attending the University of Arizona after being a student at Pima College since June 2008, with the goal of completing a Political Science major (and a likely minor in Regional Development). (Despite this, I'll try not to post anything too political--certainly not out of disinterest, but because I'd rather not write anything too inflammatory.) Outside of school, I can see quite a few of my writings to be centred around happenings at church--no, not because I'm particularly religious (or because I'm getting paid by them), but because, frankly, I don't really have much of a life.

As far as creative writings go, I'll go into detail about those in January. Right now, I have a coupe of ideas--one that I'm trying to focus on the most--and at this stage I'd really appreciate some help with that. The truth is, that one I'm focusing on involves not only an actual story--I seem to be good with coming up with ideas for them, but implementing them is another thing--but the fact that it's from an alternate universe which diverges from our own. So, there's both the "I want to tell a good story!" and the "How to keep this all plausible?" factors in play, especially the former. Of course, I can just switch to what I was working on before that before it started to lose steam--don't worry, there's way less of a focus on the Alternate History element to it, and there's some actual story material to it that I can use.

Other than that... Nothing that I really need to go into detail about in this.