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rthstewart) wrote2009-12-06 09:14 pm
rthstewart) wrote2009-12-06 09:14 pm
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Digressions is Us
So, in my defense for how TQSiT is already and will be considerably longer than Part 1:
At a mere (for me) 5,900 words there is still a lot going on, and as I reflected on this first foray into Lucy's point of view, I realized that in writing Lucy, she most fully integrates Narnia and Spare Oom. The story looks back and around to the other characters floating around this vision, including Sir Leszi (referred to earlier in TQSiT and The Palace Guard), Mr. Hoberry (TSG Part 1, By Royal Decree, and TPG), Rats and Crows (BRD, TPG, and my short, Black As Rat and Crow), Jalur, Briony, and others.
And, why yes, I am hinting at some one else waiting especially for Lucy in Aslan's Country. That too is referenced in previous stories. Twice.
As stated, Lucy has the shortest journey in this particular vision. Further, back in Chapter 2, when we learned that Edmund had heard his Narnia friends, companions, and others from behind the Wall at World's End, readers asked me, well, what about Lucy? Did she sense them too? To which I decided, yes, she did, but that for her, it was not as tumultuous an experience because Lucy lives, very much like Asim, with a foot in both worlds and so Aslan and the dead are always with her.
I wish I could say that back in April when I wrote Edmund in Chapter 3 of BRD saluting his Rats and Crows with the 2 fingered salute to his brow, or when Min23 asked me about how and why Jalur was sworn to Edmund's Order of the Stone Table, that I knew that Peter and Lucy, in the Order of the Lion, would return a salute of fist over heart. Nope. It is appalling how much of this I make as I go along. Shhhh! Don't tell anyone, OK?
As for Lucy's future, I think that's shaping up. As I said in Chapter 1 of TQSiT, "Unleashing the indomitable Queen Lucy the Valiant upon an unsuspecting England was a fearsome, wondrous thing to consider."
So, that's my first attempt at the point of view of the Valiant Queen, wherein I learned that it is much easier to have other people say a character is insightful and have that insightful character say amazingly perceptive things when that character is not the point of view character.
- I don't really get to Not Tashbaan until Chapter 4
- And 2 chapters so far are even more superfluous than the rest of it, meaning the Mrs. Ellis and Mrs. Brown Not A Chapter and now, Chapter 12, Heart and Mind, subtitled, What Lucy Thinks About All Of This
At a mere (for me) 5,900 words there is still a lot going on, and as I reflected on this first foray into Lucy's point of view, I realized that in writing Lucy, she most fully integrates Narnia and Spare Oom. The story looks back and around to the other characters floating around this vision, including Sir Leszi (referred to earlier in TQSiT and The Palace Guard), Mr. Hoberry (TSG Part 1, By Royal Decree, and TPG), Rats and Crows (BRD, TPG, and my short, Black As Rat and Crow), Jalur, Briony, and others.
And, why yes, I am hinting at some one else waiting especially for Lucy in Aslan's Country. That too is referenced in previous stories. Twice.
As stated, Lucy has the shortest journey in this particular vision. Further, back in Chapter 2, when we learned that Edmund had heard his Narnia friends, companions, and others from behind the Wall at World's End, readers asked me, well, what about Lucy? Did she sense them too? To which I decided, yes, she did, but that for her, it was not as tumultuous an experience because Lucy lives, very much like Asim, with a foot in both worlds and so Aslan and the dead are always with her.
I wish I could say that back in April when I wrote Edmund in Chapter 3 of BRD saluting his Rats and Crows with the 2 fingered salute to his brow, or when Min23 asked me about how and why Jalur was sworn to Edmund's Order of the Stone Table, that I knew that Peter and Lucy, in the Order of the Lion, would return a salute of fist over heart. Nope. It is appalling how much of this I make as I go along. Shhhh! Don't tell anyone, OK?
As for Lucy's future, I think that's shaping up. As I said in Chapter 1 of TQSiT, "Unleashing the indomitable Queen Lucy the Valiant upon an unsuspecting England was a fearsome, wondrous thing to consider."
So, that's my first attempt at the point of view of the Valiant Queen, wherein I learned that it is much easier to have other people say a character is insightful and have that insightful character say amazingly perceptive things when that character is not the point of view character.
Min23
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