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rthstewart ([personal profile] rthstewart) wrote2011-03-20 06:34 pm

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?

(Anonymous) 2011-04-10 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
One thing about me : I have a very, very hard time getting out of my shell, but once I start talking, I usually just can't seem to shut up ! So, it is unlikely you'll ever receive a three-words review from me. I would feel guilty, honestly, and every time I leave a review, I promise I'll make an effort to say something more than just "Thank you" :-P

I didn't find the part 1 too religious, on the contrary, I liked it very much that way ! Then again, I may have read it at the exact right time to fully appreciate the vision you give us. I'm not sure. But I would have loved it anyway.

I can understand the others' point of view. I don't share it, but I can see where they come from. And I find it very interesting, indeed. Funny, how things can be perceived sometimes !
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[identity profile] rthstewart.livejournal.com 2011-04-11 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
It is very funny how things can be perceived. Thanks so much for reading and reviewing and for coming back!