Thanks so much! I'm still wallowing through things, but this is definitely something I want to develop. Jill is such a blank slate in this regard. I'd originally thought of bringing Susan to Russell House as well as Peter (just as I was thinking of having Ruby there) and at some point there are just too many characters to manipulate. It's hard to write and manage and it's much, much easier when writing only 2 or 3 -- four becomes very unwieldy. So, I think again, I'm back to not using Lucy or Edmund. But they are in school and until they get out of school there isn't a lot I can do with them. This is part of what is driving me crazy about this part of the story -- there's not much story to tell of Lucy and Edmund until they are a bit older -- especially Edmund.
OK, stopping now. Again. Thanks so much for the links!
Also, in your review, you mentioned how Russell House was reminiscent of the staff of Cair Paravel. Yep. Back when I was hacking away at both BRD and TSG Part 1, the ideas of a merging of the two started there. Narnia is here, and Narnia is very present in Russell House. This was a place that I wanted to be really magical. Doing the story in this way has meant I lost a lot of that WOW factor in the Pevensies' arrival there. I've had to build it in other ways. It's an incredibly important locale in significant part because of the remarkable people who live there.
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OK, stopping now. Again. Thanks so much for the links!
Also, in your review, you mentioned how Russell House was reminiscent of the staff of Cair Paravel. Yep. Back when I was hacking away at both BRD and TSG Part 1, the ideas of a merging of the two started there. Narnia is here, and Narnia is very present in Russell House. This was a place that I wanted to be really magical. Doing the story in this way has meant I lost a lot of that WOW factor in the Pevensies' arrival there. I've had to build it in other ways. It's an incredibly important locale in significant part because of the remarkable people who live there.