structural issues with "The Courting Dance"

I think the main problem with ch. 4 is that I have been trying to frame the history lesson as an actual lesson. If I frame it, instead, as Cor reading from the Great Chronicle of Archenland or something along those lines, I think that will cause me significantly fewer headaches when intercutting Cor-and-Corin conversations.

For example, Cor persistently wants to react to lines in the middle of my expository lumps rather than wait until I've laid out several paragraphs, but I refuse utterly to insert scene breaks every other line. It will be much easier to keep things straight if I'm already in his head for the exposition.

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In completely unrelated news, I did laundry this evening, and also reassured my dad that yes, I really do want Ardis's paper-cutter. (I only need a paper-cutter once or twice a year, but when I need one, I need one, and scissors are not an acceptable substitute.)

3 things: Cornell beats Wisconsin (yay!), I am ill (boo), RemixRedux 8 signups are open (yay!)

1. Once again, pretending that I know anything about men's college basketball:

Cornell advances to Sweet 16

The next game is in Syracuse on Thursday. That's even local-ish!

(Okay, granted Kentucky is apparently a very good team and Cornell is probably going down in the next game, but this is still pretty exciting.)

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2. In less happy news, I am coming down with what feels like a doozy of a cold. I was only tired and a little sniffly this morning, but my internal temperature regulation was already off, and despite taking a two hour nap between church and work and drinking tea and fruit juice like crazy, by the time I closed the store my nose was constantly running, I had a vicious headache, my throat itched, my internal temperature was even more off, and I was starting to feel as if someone had tied lead weights to all my joints.

I have taken NyQuil, and the symptoms have not eased much.

I am going to bed by midnight and sleeping straight through until 11am, which will hopefully be enough rest to get me through tomorrow. *crosses fingers*

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3. RemixRedux 8 signups are open! Remix is a... it's not really a gift exchange, though it operates along similar lines. The idea is that you get assigned a remixee and you take one of hir stories and rewrite it the way you would tell a story with those plot threads, themes, and characters/pairings. Meanwhile, someone else is doing the same with one of your stories.

This year Naruto is back on the list of qualifying fandoms. I am interested in having it remain on the list in future (mostly so I will have options that are not Harry Potter, because the qualifying fandoms lean heavily toward Western TV shows and movies that I don't watch and/or write for), so if you think Remix sounds interesting, I would love it if you signed up and included Naruto as a fandom you qualify in and/or are willing to write for. *gives you puppydog eyes*