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rthstewart) wrote2013-08-27 08:54 am
rthstewart) wrote2013-08-27 08:54 am
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40 Days of Fic Has Begun
The Narnia Fic Exchange has begun and wow, the first story that went up is a knock out. The Meeting of Three Powers written for buttonloops It's a lovely story filled with Calormen worldbuilding, a rich characterizations of Rabadash, Susan, and Lune, AU Golden Age, and a surprise ending that quite took my breath away. In a remarkable coincidence, pencildragon11 -- the recipient of this NFE story -- had posted on Sunday a very sad tale of a 15-year old Queen Susan getting very hurt in her first young romance -- won with false dice is a painfully accurate characterization of how a girl/young woman actually would blunder her way through her first failed romance. Susan is stronger and wiser at the end but she's got a way to go yet. To read these two stories together (with HHB in the middle) gives an amazingly consistent character arc -- there is a line in Meeting of Three Powers where Susan states she is closer to wisdom and that is what these stories do together -- they tell a story over a decade or more, of how Queen Susan comes closer to wisdom.
Your mileage may vary but I found them very satisfying, all the more so because they were written by different authors and independently.
Also, there's the Madness Round going on, so if you see a prompt and feel like writing a paragraph, go for it! With 38 (I think?) stories still to go, you've got over a month and it can be posted at the end of the exchange.
buttonloops It's a lovely story filled with Calormen worldbuilding, a rich characterizations of Rabadash, Susan, and Lune, AU Golden Age, and a surprise ending that quite took my breath away. In a remarkable coincidence, pencildragon11 -- the recipient of this NFE story -- had posted on Sunday a very sad tale of a 15-year old Queen Susan getting very hurt in her first young romance -- won with false dice is a painfully accurate characterization of how a girl/young woman actually would blunder her way through her first failed romance. Susan is stronger and wiser at the end but she's got a way to go yet. To read these two stories together (with HHB in the middle) gives an amazingly consistent character arc -- there is a line in Meeting of Three Powers where Susan states she is closer to wisdom and that is what these stories do together -- they tell a story over a decade or more, of how Queen Susan comes closer to wisdom. Your mileage may vary but I found them very satisfying, all the more so because they were written by different authors and independently.
Also, there's the Madness Round going on, so if you see a prompt and feel like writing a paragraph, go for it! With 38 (I think?) stories still to go, you've got over a month and it can be posted at the end of the exchange.