Krystyna, only you could look at at 14,000 word chapter and wonder where the rest is! I'm working on it the next chapters and thinking about the Big Bang and how to do both at the same time. Harold and Morgan is on hold until I work through this. I am very weak willed. When someone says, "You know, what about?" And "I'd really like to read about..." and I usually have no self control and end up writing it. This is how I ended up with all of TQSiT and now am stuck writing the War when I never think I have the skill to write war stories. But, here I am.
I'm writing Jill's first meeting with Peter now. I'd originally thought to include Susan as well, but I'm trying to trim characters and so didn't want to write that. They'll be Christmas.
Several readers in ff.net have wondered where the idea of Jill as Afro-Caribbean came from. How counter to book canon am I? Well, the fact is, the books say nothing of her appearance or family at all. Nothing. She's a blank page. And for all that I've got this international cast of OCs, to my mind, it's different when you make a canon character a person of color. It's rare too that the source material is so vague that you really have no idea at all what she looks like. So, that's why I went with it. There was room here and I decided to not default to the white character. With all the others it can seem overkill -- I'd not decided to do Jill in this way when I started. I had no real ideas about Jill at all other than that she would bond with Kun and Lee over art, cooking, and gardening. I'd originally seen her too as finding a surrogate family at Russell House -- I've not fully resolved that as in my head, Jill's family is pretty solid. I suppose I could kill them off....
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I'm writing Jill's first meeting with Peter now. I'd originally thought to include Susan as well, but I'm trying to trim characters and so didn't want to write that. They'll be Christmas.
Several readers in ff.net have wondered where the idea of Jill as Afro-Caribbean came from. How counter to book canon am I? Well, the fact is, the books say nothing of her appearance or family at all. Nothing. She's a blank page. And for all that I've got this international cast of OCs, to my mind, it's different when you make a canon character a person of color. It's rare too that the source material is so vague that you really have no idea at all what she looks like. So, that's why I went with it. There was room here and I decided to not default to the white character. With all the others it can seem overkill -- I'd not decided to do Jill in this way when I started. I had no real ideas about Jill at all other than that she would bond with Kun and Lee over art, cooking, and gardening. I'd originally seen her too as finding a surrogate family at Russell House -- I've not fully resolved that as in my head, Jill's family is pretty solid. I suppose I could kill them off....
Thank you again for reading and reviewing.