WOW it's been a busy couple of weeks and I've got another story due next week.  BUT

First, Narnia Fanfic Exchange and NFE Madness reveals are up and live.  So many good stories this year.  I owe reviews!!

I got a wonderful story from Rustedeaglewings, The Night Before Battle, with a Caspian pep talk by the Four.

I also received a group gift of the hilarious crazy Added to the chat by the incomparable WingedFlight.

I wrote two stories,
Rat Catchers, featuring Polly Plummer as a member of the Women's Land Army on what is believed to be the eve of the Nazi invasion of Britain, September 1940.  Freudiancascade was a huge help as a sensitivity reader for the character of George.  I discovered at the last moment that I'd miffed the dates of certain events in the story.  VERY annoying but it was too late to change the action, so yeah, don't get your history of the most inept spies of WW2 from that story. 

The second story is one I'd really wanted to tell about Thomas the polyamorous bisexual goose and I really wanted to write something for syrena_of_the_lake  who has gifted me with some wonderful things.  Father Goose is here and it explores a number of things long hinted at, including Briony and Lambert (and hints of Briony's own story), the death of Mr. Noll the spy, Susan's romance with Rafe Linch, and then it makes a jump into solid Stone Gryphon AW territory. 

Then, last night, I posted a look back at The Queen Susan in Tashbaan.  Love and Rock Music (LARM) had seen this NSFW picture of an naked American airman in the midst of air-sea rescue in the Pacific theater during WW2.  She wanted me to put Wing Commander Reginald Tebbitt in.  There were some problems, obviously, and she had some ideas involving a hot air balloon accident and a convent.  autumnia  came to the rescue with the idea of involving HIs Lordship, Lord Halifax the Penguin.  And so, Booze Cruise is the result, an insert into The Queen Susan in Tashbaan.  Also, I, like Susan, had a strong desire to let all Congressional leadership drown.  She's a better person than I am. 

As I was working on this story, I realized how important that complex Narnnia conceit was in TQSiT.  Using the fake Peridan and Queen Susan allowed me to insert real Washington DC people but filtered through several layers --  the Narnia code, Susan's own letters, and then Peter and Edmund's interpretations of them.  Here, it's straight up DC story telling and I just couldn't insert the real people that were the inspiration for their Narnia/TQSiT counterparts.  So, I just don't put their names in and use titles.  It's awkward, and is far more fiction than historical. 


SO, I have posted over 36,000 words in the last month. 

 

Gosh, this makes me want to pick up Harold and Morgan again!  Thanks so much, E.  A couple of things, I guess, other than a humongous thank you.

( Consistency and lack thereof and deux ex machina )

( In which rth reveals just how little she knows of finance. It all started as a joke you see )

 

( Princesses, empowerment, and Susan as other than victim )

At 14,000 words and growing, plus the Part 3 preview, it was time to split.  I know you are shocked.  With added closet and the remnants of a scene that has been around for a very, very long time. 

The last chapter is about 80% done, with final dialog written.   It will be later in the week, along with a preview of Part 3.
Chapter 23, The Queen Susan In Tashbaan, Part 2, Crossroads

 

 

Chapter 22 went up, and it's relatively short, but covers two things that really are best dealt with separately. 

( There are two things that happen... )

A flashback and the first part of the Colonel's unraveling of the mystery in Chapter 19, The Queen Susan in Tashbaan, Part 1.    I owe responses and reviews to wingedflight21  andintrikate88 who have both posted AWESOME Dr. Who fics.  Reads and reviews are coming, after I cook Easter dinner for 15 in 12 hours. 

Thanks to everyone who helped me through the block. 

Happy Easter!

I always sleep very, very poorly when I post a chapter.  I go through these tremendous bouts of self doubt during the writing, the posting, and the review wherein I always discover the typos and things That Bother Me.  It does not really improve until I see some reviews, vain and foolish that I am.  I am an unbelievably poor judge of what resonates with readers.  I found Edmund's long discussion with Peter repetitive and dull, and, certain parts overwrought, certain transitions painful, etc. etc.  While I like the fact that it is lighter at night, I'll spend the next 3 weeks trying to recover my lost hour due to DST.  Plus, the laptop AC adapter died. 

But, amid everything, I did want to return to a few points.
( More on Chapter 18 and my delusions of connectivity )

It's up.  Moles in the Garden, Part 1.  I tried really hard to get another update in February -- it's been slightly more than 2 weeks.  So...
Once again, we are not in Susan's point of view, and in fact, it's not in America at all.  As happened at the end of Part 1, it's both looking back, and beginning to set the stage for the next part, Part 3.  It's the night that TQSiT began, when Peter arrives to see Eustace, Lucy, and Edmund, the evening of their return from the Dawn Treader, so the barriers between Spare Oom and Narnia are rather "porous" -- though of course a thematic element of TQSiT is that the two worlds are not so separate after all. 

So, that's that.  Thanks so very, very much.  And why did it never occur to me before that Neverland and Narnia both begin with the letter N.