"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood..." (on writing Angel Sanctuary fic)

Last night I started writing an Angel Sanctuary fic. It's a oneshot, but a very long oneshot with several sections and a sort of alternating structure.

The thing is, I know the overall shape very clearly, but I could write it two extremely different ways.

See, it's about Alexiel's cycle of incarnations. In which she dies horribly, again and again and again. (This is not a happy story. It would be like "Knives," or "Wonderland," or Draco's section of "Restoration," or "Mona's Blood," or "Day of the Dead: Stains," or "The Gordian Solution," and quite possibly worse than all of those.)

Anyway, I can either be vague about each incarnation, naming no names and places and dates, which helps emphasize a thematic point I am trying to make in the story...

Or I can get very specific. Of course, getting specific will require a metric ton of research, so I have appropriate names, and so my geography and history and cultural attitudes are accurate. I am not sure I want to put in that amount of time and effort for a oneshot fanfiction story... but on the other hand, I think it would help ground the mystical elements, and it could be really cool.

I dunno. Thoughts, anyone?

[Linkspam] ice cream sundae 'war' rages on...

To start: Ithaca is the birthplace of the ice cream sundae. Pay no attention to those poor deluded people in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. :-)

(Also, the sundae was invented by Unitarians! I am not kidding about that. This is why the resumption of regular Sunday services in the fall -- after the congregation-led summer sessions -- is called Sundae Sunday, and everyone gets free ice cream during coffee hour after the service.)

Anyway, a while ago, people in Ithaca and Two Rivers realized that they both claimed to have hosted the true origin of the ice cream sundae. The argument has continued to grow, and now CBS is doing an "Assignment America" segment on the story. The Ithaca Journal has more information here.

This is at one and the same time hysterically amusing, and kind of sad in its utter triviality.

[Linkspam] ice cream sundae 'war' rages on...

To start: Ithaca is the birthplace of the ice cream sundae. Pay no attention to those poor deluded people in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. :-)

(Also, the sundae was invented by Unitarians! I am not kidding about that. This is why the resumption of regular Sunday services in the fall -- after the congregation-led summer sessions -- is called Sundae Sunday, and everyone gets free ice cream during coffee hour after the service.)

Anyway, a while ago, people in Ithaca and Two Rivers realized that they both claimed to have hosted the true origin of the ice cream sundae. The argument has continued to grow, and now CBS is doing an "Assignment America" segment on the story. The Ithaca Journal has more information here.

This is at one and the same time hysterically amusing, and kind of sad in its utter triviality.