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rthstewart) wrote2009-12-07 10:15 am
rthstewart) wrote2009-12-07 10:15 am
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ACCCK!
So, not only have I surpassed Part 1 in Words, Words, Words (ahem, right), TQSiT is approaching 200. To repeat, AACK! Which give how WEIRD this stuff is, says something not easy to interpret about both reader and writer.
In any event, I've been musing a lot on Part 3. As I mentioned in Autumnia's comment, for any who are following enough to remember, back in Part 1, Asim has been dreaming of the Dawn Treader all summer and been dreaming of the girl/woman on the bow for longer than that. Further, in Chapter 3, Later, of TQSiT he is himself impatient to meet Lucy. We know this meeting is coming. Similarly, after Agnes' reading of the Tarot cards in chapter 6, we know that a meeting is coming for Susan as well. He tells Edmund they will meet again. Peter and Asim need to have a long and awkward conversation as well about double lives and deception through omission, pot meet kettle.
I had intended to end TQSiT where it's going to end (August 1942) and then jump ahead 4 years to 1946, which means no further contact between the denizens of the House of Russell and the Pevensies until after the War ends. I am really wondering if I can stick to that plan, particularly given the development of Peter's character in Part 1. Peter left Oxford in a rush, and broke his promise to Richard. As written here, however angry Peter is or remains at Asim, that anger will not keep him from seeing Richard. There are other things too -- things like the fact that given how it's been it written thus far, someone will tell Susan when those tanks arrive in North Africa and that they are pivotal -- which in real life did not happen until September-November 1942.
I'm not sure where this leaves except, likely, some unplanned writing at the front end of Part 3.
In any event, I've been musing a lot on Part 3. As I mentioned in Autumnia's comment, for any who are following enough to remember, back in Part 1, Asim has been dreaming of the Dawn Treader all summer and been dreaming of the girl/woman on the bow for longer than that. Further, in Chapter 3, Later, of TQSiT he is himself impatient to meet Lucy. We know this meeting is coming. Similarly, after Agnes' reading of the Tarot cards in chapter 6, we know that a meeting is coming for Susan as well. He tells Edmund they will meet again. Peter and Asim need to have a long and awkward conversation as well about double lives and deception through omission, pot meet kettle.
I had intended to end TQSiT where it's going to end (August 1942) and then jump ahead 4 years to 1946, which means no further contact between the denizens of the House of Russell and the Pevensies until after the War ends. I am really wondering if I can stick to that plan, particularly given the development of Peter's character in Part 1. Peter left Oxford in a rush, and broke his promise to Richard. As written here, however angry Peter is or remains at Asim, that anger will not keep him from seeing Richard. There are other things too -- things like the fact that given how it's been it written thus far, someone will tell Susan when those tanks arrive in North Africa and that they are pivotal -- which in real life did not happen until September-November 1942.
I'm not sure where this leaves except, likely, some unplanned writing at the front end of Part 3.
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As for ending "Queen Susan" and then jumping forward several years, it will be very interesting to see where you will go with it. I do think maybe a visit with Richard is in order though, despite Peter's anger at Asim. Mainly, I wonder how much more will Richard learn about Peter before the illness really takes hold and he forgets all these wonderful things he's learned from the High King. Does he ever solve the puzzle that is Peter? :-) Unless you decide to address that in Part 3 as well.
As for Asim, if he will not be meeting Lucy for several years, does this mean he won't see Edmund again or meet Susan until that time also? The talk that will eventually have to come as he sees Peter next will indeed be awkward. Oddly enough, I think Edmund would be a good "mediator" (for lack of a better word coming to me at the moment) between his brother and Asim; Edmund is a balance between them since he can see things as both a King like Peter and a spy like Asim.
I don't really have any thoughts for Susan at this point, but I'm sure whatever you end up writing will be wonderful.
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One thing I would love to see is the Concert of Minds together, meeting with Asim. What I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall for that meeting!
And I don't think it's odd to be thinking back to Part 1 or ahead to Part 3 at all. It just means you're trying to keep things consistent among all three parts in your vast universe. :-)
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Don;t worry, it will get sorted soon :)
*yeh, pathetic help I know, but brain is currently fried from law bleurgh, this is all I can manage :P*
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Yeh, Lacerated goths and teddies (Me? Weird names? :P)
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Min23
(Anonymous) 2009-12-08 09:50 am (UTC)(link)autumnia and WingedFlight's comments about Richard got me thinking too. If he doesn't really appear much again, then I guess you'd need to leave the resolution with Peter as is. But if Part 3 doesn't begin until 1946, would Richard still have it even moderately together (if he's even survived) that long?
I know dementia is a wretch of a condition that moves differently for every sufferer, but as you've pointed out yourself in Part 1, Richard himself doesn't think he's got too much time. Yep, sounds to me like we'll either have to have a "mini" part or a earlier start to Part 3. Cool...
Oh, and congrats - seriously, you deserve every single one.
Cheers
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doewe
(Anonymous) 2009-12-08 09:37 am (UTC)(link)Re: doewe