Thanks, Indil. I have to say that at least on ff.net the chapter has landed with a terrible, horrible echoing thud. I tend to get very anxious and depressed with posting regardless and the response has been unbelievably rotten by my normal standards. Probably the worse in a year or more. Did it ALL SUCK? Did I get it THAT wrong? This same SLOOOOOW and non-existent reaction almost did me in completely last year and caused me to abandon this story and almost dump AW as well. I've got the urge to rip it all down (again) and abandon it (again) and anyway...
Errr, right, anyway, the issue with Morgan's lack of eye contact by the way is actually physiological and neurological. She's very very good on the quantitative side but there is in fact something not quite right about her. As I've worked with her character, I've thought that one reason she can resonate with some modern readers is that we all know people like that -- the math and computer lab prodigies who go on to work at Microsoft, google, and facebook and have patents at age 22.
I'm actually glad that for those who have share their thoughts, that they are divided on who is more at fault because I happen to like it when readers find ambiguity and disagree. Sometimes there is one, right answer. I do think Edmund should have told her WHY because you know, enough already, get over the angst. But, Morgan does not help the situation.
In any event, there actually is not that much of any Pevensie pov in the stories except Edmund's on the Narnia side because I've only done Royal Decree and H&M as full stories with canon, POV characters and those are Ed-centric. Palace Guard is all beast-centric. I have a fair amount of Peter in flashback, particularly post Tashbaan. I have Lucy in one of the funeral flashbacks. Susan's Narnian POV is in Part 1 with the swearing hummingbirds and she's with Wrasse in the funeral flashbacks in Part 2.
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Errr, right, anyway, the issue with Morgan's lack of eye contact by the way is actually physiological and neurological. She's very very good on the quantitative side but there is in fact something not quite right about her. As I've worked with her character, I've thought that one reason she can resonate with some modern readers is that we all know people like that -- the math and computer lab prodigies who go on to work at Microsoft, google, and facebook and have patents at age 22.
I'm actually glad that for those who have share their thoughts, that they are divided on who is more at fault because I happen to like it when readers find ambiguity and disagree. Sometimes there is one, right answer. I do think Edmund should have told her WHY because you know, enough already, get over the angst. But, Morgan does not help the situation.
In any event, there actually is not that much of any Pevensie pov in the stories except Edmund's on the Narnia side because I've only done Royal Decree and H&M as full stories with canon, POV characters and those are Ed-centric. Palace Guard is all beast-centric. I have a fair amount of Peter in flashback, particularly post Tashbaan. I have Lucy in one of the funeral flashbacks. Susan's Narnian POV is in Part 1 with the swearing hummingbirds and she's with Wrasse in the funeral flashbacks in Part 2.
Thanks!