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rthstewart) wrote2011-02-28 08:58 pm
rthstewart) wrote2011-02-28 08:58 pm
In which I take a deep breath and hit the post button anyway
So, Chapter 8, The Queen Susan in Finchley, is up.
There’s not much research here. The information on the SS Seatrain came from here.
I really meant to get this up sooner, but I’ve been tweaking Susan and Peter’s conversation for days. I’ve been concerned about a lot of things there. I don’t want Peter to seem pompous or judgmental for acts undertaken in Narnia. I really wanted to show a good relationship between the two of them because without that, the “not a Friend of Narnia” is meaningless. The ends and means discussion reappears, now with the added gloss of what it means to be a Knight of Narnia. It was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
min023 who pointed out once how Susan was the only one not a Knight and I've thought a lot about that over the months.
Of immense concern tol_a_r_m , Lowrey’s fate remains undecided. This is a step forward, as I did intend to kill him.
And of course, the chapter continues the meditation on families and children and the war’s effects upon them. The Churchill quote is deliberately ironic given what the War did to English family life. I’ve been working on the theme for several chapters now with good parents (Tom Clark, Lin Kun and Kwong Lee), bad parents (Harold and Alberta), absent parents (Richard Russell, John Pevensie, Leszi, Jack’s mother, Yi), parental figures (Ruby, Peter in many different guises), and unconventional families and single parents (Ruby as surrogate mother to Jack, Tom Clark, Dalia and Mrs. Pevensie as single parents, Maureen in an Asian family, Peter in a Cheetah family, Cyrus and the Satyrs) and so forth.
I’ve not addressed head on the issue of whether Edmund was one of those absent fathers and whether Morgan was one of those single mothers for a lot of reasons. Most troubling to me is that it reeks of fandom cliché and it’s not a part of the story that most TSG readers have focused upon too much. I’ve tried to show something of how I see the succession after the departure and it’s not the harsh, brutal, or violent upheaval most often shown in fic. Hence the reason for the introduction of Aidan and his many small relations.
snacky , Clio, E, autumnia , and min023 have been a huge help with this chapter. So, thank you!
There’s more to come about Edmund and Morgan. Like the Valentine's Day story, I will post it here and not on ff.net.
Some chapters come easily. The conversation between Peter and Susan was not one of them.
There’s not much research here. The information on the SS Seatrain came from here.
I really meant to get this up sooner, but I’ve been tweaking Susan and Peter’s conversation for days. I’ve been concerned about a lot of things there. I don’t want Peter to seem pompous or judgmental for acts undertaken in Narnia. I really wanted to show a good relationship between the two of them because without that, the “not a Friend of Narnia” is meaningless. The ends and means discussion reappears, now with the added gloss of what it means to be a Knight of Narnia. It was
min023 who pointed out once how Susan was the only one not a Knight and I've thought a lot about that over the months. Of immense concern to
l_a_r_m , Lowrey’s fate remains undecided. This is a step forward, as I did intend to kill him.And of course, the chapter continues the meditation on families and children and the war’s effects upon them. The Churchill quote is deliberately ironic given what the War did to English family life. I’ve been working on the theme for several chapters now with good parents (Tom Clark, Lin Kun and Kwong Lee), bad parents (Harold and Alberta), absent parents (Richard Russell, John Pevensie, Leszi, Jack’s mother, Yi), parental figures (Ruby, Peter in many different guises), and unconventional families and single parents (Ruby as surrogate mother to Jack, Tom Clark, Dalia and Mrs. Pevensie as single parents, Maureen in an Asian family, Peter in a Cheetah family, Cyrus and the Satyrs) and so forth.
I’ve not addressed head on the issue of whether Edmund was one of those absent fathers and whether Morgan was one of those single mothers for a lot of reasons. Most troubling to me is that it reeks of fandom cliché and it’s not a part of the story that most TSG readers have focused upon too much. I’ve tried to show something of how I see the succession after the departure and it’s not the harsh, brutal, or violent upheaval most often shown in fic. Hence the reason for the introduction of Aidan and his many small relations.
snacky , Clio, E, autumnia , and min023 have been a huge help with this chapter. So, thank you!There’s more to come about Edmund and Morgan. Like the Valentine's Day story, I will post it here and not on ff.net.
Some chapters come easily. The conversation between Peter and Susan was not one of them.
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I'm glad the historical issue rang true for you. I am not a historian and just fake my way through these things. But we don't have that many 1,000 year old documents floating around today that would be doubly true in Narnia, wouldn't it? The Dryad oral account was there for several reasons -- whenever I have Peter and Susan alone in a scene, I feel that I need to remind the reader that there isn't an incestual subtext because they are together so seldom in fic. And, as mentioned, I need to build the relationship in order to trash it by TLB because if they don't get along and were never close why would "Not a Friend of Narnia" hurt?
And you are absolutely very welcome. Thank you