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rthstewart) wrote2011-03-20 06:34 pm
rthstewart) wrote2011-03-20 06:34 pm
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An anniversary of sorts and I must be missing something
So, on March 19, 2009, Rthstewart opened an account on fanfiction.net. TWO years -- the cotton (traditional) and china (modern) anniversary. I always get all mushy and nostalgic on anniversaries and milestones (TQSiT is getting near one AHHHHHHH!!!). I've been talking to myself a lot in the car about the upcoming two year mark as I listen to the Doctor Who Season 5 soundtrack. (Fortunately my colleague no longer requires lifts to the office so I'm alone with me, myself, and I). I am pushing hard to get chapter 9 up on March 22, which would be two years from when I first started posting TSG. Scary much? I'm scared. And scarred.
AW 9 is coming slowly at about 5,000 words so far. It will be a shorter chapter and as I mentioned earlier, it is entirely letters, such as the following:
From:
Eustace Scrubb
Experiment House
Eyton upon the Weald Moors
Telford
Shropshire
To:
Edmund Pevensie
Blackpool Forest School
Tilehurst
Reading
Berkshire
Dear Edmund:
You called it. I knew it would be awful returning, and it is. My old gang expected me to be back with Them and their old ways. Anyone not an utter rotter wanted nothing to do with me. When I tried to behave properly, the decent folk thought I was a spy and got even more suspicious. I keep telling myself what you said, that it’s the work of weeks and months, and by my actions I shall be judged.
Which led to the rabbit. Carter and some of his gang had cornered the poor thing behind the gym and were throwing rocks at it. It wasn’t a Talking Rabbit, of course, but rabbits aren’t very far from Rats (though rabbits are not rodents like rats, they are lagomorphs due to the teeth and other anatomical features) and even if it had been a hedgehog or a snake, the thing should not have been tortured and frightened to death by schoolboys. etc.
YES! Carter and the Rabbit and Eustace keeping the secret under torture!!! And then he writes to Edmund about it!
Which brings me to the help me F List readers. I've got a long list of letters going back and forth between the characters, some canon, some OCs. I know that invariably someone has some awesome idea where I smack my hand against my forehead and say, "Why didn't I think of that?"
So, given where we are and where things are going, what are some of the letters you would expect to see or want to see? Anyone? Who? What?
AW 9 is coming slowly at about 5,000 words so far. It will be a shorter chapter and as I mentioned earlier, it is entirely letters, such as the following:
From:
Eustace Scrubb
Experiment House
Eyton upon the Weald Moors
Telford
Shropshire
To:
Edmund Pevensie
Blackpool Forest School
Tilehurst
Reading
Berkshire
Dear Edmund:
You called it. I knew it would be awful returning, and it is. My old gang expected me to be back with Them and their old ways. Anyone not an utter rotter wanted nothing to do with me. When I tried to behave properly, the decent folk thought I was a spy and got even more suspicious. I keep telling myself what you said, that it’s the work of weeks and months, and by my actions I shall be judged.
Which led to the rabbit. Carter and some of his gang had cornered the poor thing behind the gym and were throwing rocks at it. It wasn’t a Talking Rabbit, of course, but rabbits aren’t very far from Rats (though rabbits are not rodents like rats, they are lagomorphs due to the teeth and other anatomical features) and even if it had been a hedgehog or a snake, the thing should not have been tortured and frightened to death by schoolboys. etc.
YES! Carter and the Rabbit and Eustace keeping the secret under torture!!! And then he writes to Edmund about it!
Which brings me to the help me F List readers. I've got a long list of letters going back and forth between the characters, some canon, some OCs. I know that invariably someone has some awesome idea where I smack my hand against my forehead and say, "Why didn't I think of that?"
So, given where we are and where things are going, what are some of the letters you would expect to see or want to see? Anyone? Who? What?
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...but rabbits aren't very far from Rats (though rabbits are not rodents like rats...
Now, when I saw this, I immediately thought of Rat and Crow. Given how the Pevensies didn't share Susan's adventures with Eustace, does he even know how fond of Rats and Crows his cousins are? (Jalur maligning the Crows during his guard duty [temporary!] comes to mind from TPG.)
As for letters, I think whatever you have planned out will be good. I'm curious though -- will there be any letters from the poetic Lord Peridan?
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Donne!
I immediately thought of Rat and Crow. Given how the Pevensies didn't share Susan's adventures with Eustace, does he even know how fond of Rats and Crows his cousins are?
I need to put that one aside. Hmmm....
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