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Saturday, October 12th, 2013 07:51 am
The NFE Madness round posted here! AND TWO IMPORTANT THINGS! Someone wrote a lovely Susan story for me! World Enough

And someone else wrote a story set in TSG-related verse (set during Apostolic Way) involving Peter and the rabbit he showed to Morgan in the AUish Lost in Translation I wrote.  It's adorable and sad and lovely,  The Rabbit of the High King

There are some other really fun stories, too, so go check them out!


I should be posting a new H&M chapter this soon.  Here's a snippet.

It took Pierce less than a day to wish that his sister, whom he loved and respected very much, had not come home. Three years ago, Morgan had been tense, intense, awkward, unrelenting, and even obnoxious. Her changes had been slow and beautiful. He had seen his sister grow in confidence, holding all her acumen in place, but softening her harsh and unforgiving edges. She had become more balanced and flexible. The causes were many, he knew – some combination of Jina’s support and friendship, the regard the other Narnians had for her, and King Edmund’s – well, having experienced it now himself, Pierce called it love (he had no idea what Morgan and King Edmund would call it).

It was as if all that goodness had been erased and Morgan’s interpersonal timepiece had been turned backward.

In fact, she was far worse than before.

By the second morning, Morgan reduced the cooks to tears over the coffee. She and Father had argued into the noon bell, three days running, when he told her that he was not going to take away the old accounts of hers that he had given to their two new ADs, Chase and Wells. Morgan was to train, not steal, a distinction she didn’t grasp. In a moment of impatient and immature, though very profound, insight, Morgan stomped and shouted, “I don’t like to share my things!”

I owe comments and thanks to many people for generous reviews.  Thanks so much.  I've not responded as I've been trying to finish the above chapter and as you might have read in the paper, things have been very unsettled in the area I live in.  Your support has been a bright spot in a very, very dark time.  A brief bit on that below. 

And behind the cut a brief comment on the federal government shut down

Brief rant against those who think our President is a foreign-born Muslim and the anti-Christ )


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Sunday, October 6th, 2013 08:10 am
In case you missed it, the Narnia Fic Exchange Reveals went up! Do go check out the stories because there are some really lovely ones. [personal profile] deepdarkwaters wrote a terrific, subtle cross over for me that I really enjoyed so much. It's a great story and I hope you'll check Always A King out and tell her how awesome it is.

And now the MADNESS ROUND BEGINS

I wrote two stories

Mazy Rings Troublesome Things for [personal profile] heliopausa
I had gotten my assignment at some point when, during and around our trip to England. Adaese and [personal profile] wellinghall had taken me to see the Magical Books exhibit at the Bodeleian Library in Oxford and I saw Lewis' Lefay fragment there. And so the idea was born. It was while reading and re-reading Magician's Nephew that I came with the story Come Boldly Unto Throne of Grace.   The story is the first time I ever tried to write in the Lewis style of voice.  There is a line about how once I went riding on the Somerset levels and my pony was wiser than I was and knew to avoid the rings.  That is actually taken from a ride I did do, though it was in Connemara in Ireland and my guide, a very serious young woman, pointed to a stand of trees and informed me that was the sort of place where fairies were sure to be and we should ride by very quickly lest they capture us.

A lot of the information came from the Wikipedia entry on fairy rings.

 





The second story was for [personal profile] wingedflight21 and I figured out from the prompt that it was probably Winged and I've know her a few years now so it was really fun to do this story.  Light to the Misled and Lonely Traveler is a massive crossover.  It was a lot of fun in a Hitchhikers Guide sort of way.  It marks the first time I've crossed into several verses there, including two book series I've never read. 

My thanks to [personal profile] snacky  for the great exchange and to [personal profile] buttonloops , [personal profile] starbrow  and Jay for the betas on the stories.  Unlike past stories, I didn't think either was obviously mine. 
 

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Tuesday, October 1st, 2013 01:18 pm

The good news,


















The C.S. Lewis Company has entered into an agreement with The Mark Gordon Company to jointly develop and produce The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair, the fourth book published in C.S. Lewis' famed fantasy series. The announcement was made today by The C.S. Lewis Company. Coming soon.net has the information here!


YES THERE WILL BE ANOTHER NARNIA MOVIE AND THIS MEANS A MASSIVE INFLUX OF JILL/PUDDLEGLUM/EUSTACE/RILIAN OT4 Am I right??
At one time, on NFFR we cast Anderson Cooper as Puddleglum and Misha Collins as the Warden and Michael Bay to direct. BOOM  YES GIVE ME YOUR FRIVOLOUS CASTING SPOILERS

Also, the Fic Corner Exchange opened and I spotted 4 new Narnia stories, all lovely, and lots of other things.

The Narnia Fic Exchange is wrapping up and the madness round is starting.  There's been a big drop off in FB so I hope you'll go and check out the stories and give them some love!

Cute Overload is sponsoring Tocktober -- adorable pictures of cute animals' 'tocks -- that is, buttocks.

The Bad and the Ugly, the US federal government shut down.  Political rant:  About 30 Republicans in the US House of Representatives have decided to shut down the US government rather than allow poor, uninsured people the opportunity to buy health insurance in government-sponsored exchanges.  Because yes, it's better that poor people die of preventable disease than get to live and therefore potentially vote for a Democrat.  /rant

No, my family is not personally affected as neither of us is subject to the current US government appropriations process.  Many of our friends, colleagues, and family members are affected.  My deep sympathies to any of you affected.


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Tuesday, August 27th, 2013 08:54 am
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 [personal profile] 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. 

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Tuesday, August 20th, 2013 08:31 pm
The deadline for the Narnia Fic Exchange was yesterday and [personal profile] snacky  says posting of stories will begin on August 26!!!

Doing something new, there is now an open Madness round!  All the prompts have been posted, though the person making the request is anonymous (for now).  You can go, peruse the prompts, and if you see something that catches your eye, you can write it!  No word limit, no beta requirements, nothing!  The only requirement is that you post your response to the prompt after the main stories have been posted.  Given that there are 30 prompts, you'll have over a month to write something, anything.  You don't have to claim a prompt, you don't have tell anyone you are doing it, you just write and once the main exchange is over, you have a week to post the story there and anywhere else.

Currently all prompts are anonymous.  Once posting begins on the 26th, the prompts will, as they are filled, be revealed so you can even know for whom you are writing. 

So do come and join us!  The prompts are so interesting and really fun.  Also, a lot of people watch the Narnia fic exchange who are outside the usual posting places -- it's a great way to discover new readers and new writers. 

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Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 12:08 am
I got mine!  Did you get yours?  Tell me more (without breaking the code of silence!).  Are you excited?  Are you stressed?  Do you  hear crickets and howling wolves?  Are you worried you'll be writing another 20,000 words?

Thanks so much to [personal profile] snacky , as always! 

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Thursday, June 13th, 2013 05:06 pm
The Narnia Fic Exchange is open!
Sign ups
Betas
Pinch Hitters

Signups open: June 9
Signups close: June 19
Prompts sent out: by June 24
Fics due: anytime before August 19
Posting begins: August 26

Go!  sign up!

In comments to Part 1 of Lost in Translation, ruanchunxian0 and some others commented that they'd like to see Peter being all doting and flailing so I posted this.





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Tuesday, June 4th, 2013 07:07 pm

The Narnia Fic Exchange 2013 is beginning!

Signups open: June 9
Signups close: June 19
Prompts sent out: by June 24
Fics due: anytime before August 19
Posting begins: August 26

[personal profile] snacky is running it again! Thanks Snax! They will be looking for participants, betas and pinch hitters! 1,000 word minimum and the quality of the stories is always so high!

I have received wonderful stories from this:[personal profile] edenfalling wrote the fabulous Queen Lucy, the Firebird, and the Death of Koschei the Deathless for ME last year!

I've also received the wonderful More than kisses letters mingle souls by [personal profile] athousandwinds (Polly the suffragist and Digory home from the war with a commendation!) and Written in the dust by [personal profile] bedlamsbard (fake history!)

So do think about signing up!!!