Legilimens

It’s time to dig down into the depths of your fic to examine how well the language you use tells your story.

On Writing April 29, 2026 In my last post, I defined the various levels of editing. Here, I’m going to give you some ideas for

Writing fic is supposed to be fun and subversive, and no one should expect perfection from any writer, much less one who’s doing it for love rather than money, but getting the basics right is still important.

Here are the problems that can make readers nope out of a story faster than Harry Potter can whip out an Expelliarmus!

To close out my very inexpert and incomplete series on Britpickery for Americans, I thought I’d share a few random things that have tripped me up and splattered me all over the pavement as a Yank in the Potterverse until they were (generally very politely) pointed out to me.