Entry the One

I was up too late last night and now am up too early this morning after checking my office Blackberry (yes, you read that correctly) and seeing a delightful entry from lady_songsmith   She wrote that she had some thoughts on this Thing I am working on/have been working on, and would I be interested in starting a conversation?  So I naturally came downstairs, fired up the laptop and now say yes! yes! yes!

I am an egotistical sot, I suppose.    But I adore talking about stuff and my brain hurts in the best of possible ways after some NFFR conversations about Difficult Themes and then diving (again) into the work of bethemoon and bedlamsbard 

So, lady_songsmith bring it on.

( Update on Chapter 17 )

Err, yeah.  back to bed. 

A review discussing Susan's Journey

The following was gifted to me my lady_songsmith 

I've reposted it here for reflection. and will be doing so with the others she posted.  It's A LOT to consider for me and my head is reeling for the awesomeness of it, but all in good time.

( On Susan's Journey )

 

Plot and writing, thoughts by Lady Songsmith

( Plot? There's a plot? )

Aslan and the Divine

lady_songsmith and her reflections on divinity in TSG

Aslan and the Divine

I really like that you refer to the Divine fluidly -- Him, Her, Aslan, God, Allah -- rather than trying to cram all of this strictly into the Christian theology alone.

Impressed that you keep the mystic/divine on a level that is subtle and understated enough to be wholly believable. Your characters may be hearing the Voice of God, but it is done so delicately that we as readers are not bashed over the head by Great Revelations. One could, if one chose (and were perhaps of a mindset like the Col's), read all of the Aslan-moments as the voices of the characters' subconscious minds rather that any manifestation of the Divine.

I also love L's -- 'casual' is the wrong word, but I lack the vocabulary for what I do mean -- relationship with Aslan, and the way E accepts this a matter of course although it seems he doesn't hear A so clearly nor does he really seem to expect to, ever. Of course, later in QSiT he does have a conversation with A, so perhaps I misread that; my impression in Pt1 was that he sensed A much the way P did in the garden with RR, rather than the solidity of L's conversations.

I can't help thinking that if P makes Asim's inner eye squint, L will probably blind him.

Re: RR and AP's discussion of suicide/euthanasia: this very short interaction has a ton to be unpacked in it, but I’ve tried about a dozen times to take a stab at explaining why I find it both irritating and very fitting and gotten nowhere.

Random Fleets

( This and that, comments about various and sundry )

Shady Lady -- Comment Fic by Lady_Songsmith, Eloise82, and Metonomia

( Shady Lady -- Lucy and the Lethal Parasol )