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[rthstewart]

So, I periodically google my old identities to see if anything pops up and found a recent rec from August in het_reccers for the very first fan fic I ever wrote -- from over 14 years ago. I don't even have an email associated with the account anymore. I bonded with my first online fandom and fen over that fic and I'll be flying off to be with some of them next week for Harry Potter. I've not written in that fandom for maybe 10 years, but it's all sort of strange to see that and realize that some people still remember it.  I deeply value the friendships I made while writing that fic but the friendships have long since outstripped the reason we came together in the first place.

I'm slogging away on Chapter 3 of AW -- 7,000 words plus. Eustace and Mary are having a very long discussion in the museum about dinosaur anatomy and Lucy, Polly and Digory are discussing baseball and the Communion of the Saints. Having accomplished what I needed to do in Chapters 1-3, my outline has the next chapter jumping back to Cambridge and the dinner with Colonel Clark and Jack. But, some readers have felt that I'm rushing the story too much? And maybe folks aren't quite ready for the story to leave Oxford? And are you are expecting a few more interactions among the characters? I have, as you gathered from Chapter 2, shipped Asim out of the picture, believing that there's enough going on that I don't want to add Lucy to that mix -- yet. But, if you have any thoughts on other things you'd expected to see in these first chapters, and did not, I'd gladly hear them.

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Last, an anonymous reviewer, theoretica, pointed out a really critical error in TSG, Part 1.  There are no hummingbirds in Oxford.  Thank you!  She also caught something else and I'm pleased to death about that.  Thank you!  The point is, I need to figure out a way to get Peter and Richard talking about hummingbirds without actually seeing one.  It's a minor tweak, and easily done, but it's annoying that I didn't catch this sooner.  So, hey!  you all!  out there!  When you spot something that's not quite right, tell me!!!  Given the breadth of where I go in this, it's inevitable.  I do try and where I do fudge the real life for reasons of storytelling, I try to make note of it.