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eiahmon ([personal profile] eiahmon) wrote2010-05-13 11:46 pm
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Preface to A Gracey's Chance

This is the oddest fic idea I have EVER had, so hopefully, this will explain things a bit.



 

Preface to A Gracey's Chance




This odd fanfic was inspired by one of the oddest dreams I've ever had, which in turn was inspired by a fan video I saw on Youtube a few days ago for the movie The Haunted Mansion. I won't bore you with the details of the dream, and you can go here to find the fanvid if you're interested, but I will say that I always thought that the plot in Haunted Mansion was a good story that was told badly. The movie had so much potential, but it died a quick death early on in the movie when it became apparent that Nathaniel Parker - who plays Master Edward Gracey - is the only good actor in the movie. Well I can't say that. Terrence Stamp, who plays Ramsley, does a great job, but Parker is the best. The rest really didn't work at all.

Suffice to say, I watched the movie once with my four nieces, found myself unimpressed by it, and I promptly forgot about it, until I saw the video on Youtube. The excellently done video (accompanied by Within Temptation's beautiful song "Memories") got the tragic story of Edward Gracey lodged firmly in my brain, where it refused to go away. I hoped that writing a fanfic about Gracey, who is my favorite character, would shut my yammering imagination up, but I was approaching my third straight week of the dreaded Writer's Block, and no ideas were forthcoming.


Thankfully, my friend Ninjakitters gave me a fanfic idea to write (I'm working on it, Kitters; I promise!) which shattered the Writer's Block and allowed my imagination to give me the weird ass dream that inspired this fanfic that very same night. So without further delay, click on that little link down there at the bottom to move on to the first chapter of A Gracey's Chance.


Oh, and a word of caution. The dream gave me the intro to the story, and one scene from the middle, but nothing more. I am, at this point, unsure where I will be able to take this story, so there is a very real chance that it may never be finished. I will try not to abandon it, but there is a high chance that once it has served its purpose and gotten Edward Gracey out of my head, the story will come to a screeching halt.


Make that two words of caution. This fic will be a rush job, so it likely will not be up to the standards of my usual fics. This is also my first attempt at writing Harry Potter, and I've never had the greatest grasp of the characters from that universe. Neither do I know much in the way of British English. I apologize for any crappy writing in advance.


Three words! This is the LAST one! Honest! XD For those that are wondering, The Haunted Mansion movie has taken place in this universe, and the story picks up sometime after.




-- Chapter 1

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