[Fic] "To All Good Will" -- Chronicles of Narnia

I thought I might as well write something while waiting to be told what to write. (Yeah, yeah, go ahead and mock all you want. What can I say -- I get bored easily.)

The internet informs me that Christmas in 1948 did in fact fall on a Saturday. The first two lines of Edmund's attempted limerick are a direct quote from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The remaining three are, alas, entirely my fault. As for how the letters got back and forth so fast... let us say that either London's postal service was Just That Good, or they talked Peter into playing courier. *grin*

Five letters exchanged between Susan and Edmund Pevensie in the week leading up to Christmas 1948. (600 words)

[ETA: The ever-so-slightly revised final version is now up here on AO3 and here on ff.net.]

( To All Good Will )

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There is actually an explanation for how I got from the prompt word to the fic, but it's rather long, convoluted, and involves me singing the word to the tune of "Rock Me Amadeus," among other things, so I think it's best left untold. *wry*

poll results

Thank you to everyone who voted on what I should write today and tomorrow. The winner is ch. 14 of "The Guardian in Spite of Herself," with "Friends and Neighbors" as the runner-up.

I will get to work on that!

(There will be a gap while I go to a teacher appreciation dinner at church this evening, but aside from that... well, I can write at least a thousand words a day, given the right motivation, and I do have an outline, so fingers crossed.)

one reason to write a story all at once rather than ignoring it for, you know, two years and change

I opened the file for ch. 14 of "The Guardian in Spite of Herself" and realized why I'd stalled out where I had -- I've already written the relatively easy Naga and Sasuke scenes, and the next scene up is Eiji, Ginji, and Tetsuko talking about the details of Eiji's plan, complete with discussion of the ninja village system, international politics, their own fraught family history, and so on. Complicated. Also, I'd kind of forgotten how to write the three of them. *headdesk*

So I have been rereading the story from Eiji's introduction in ch. 4 to reacquaint myself with my own characters. This has derailed slightly into minor revisions as I notice niggling little discrepancies from chapter to chapter -- things like Tetsuko saying she'll have some itineraries ready in two days, and then next chapter, "true to her word," having them ready in one day. Argh. (I've fixed that one, incidentally.) So this is going slowly.

On the plus side, I'm pretty sure I remember how to write the Amane family now. :-)

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The teacher appreciation dinner was nice. It's always good to get out of my apartment and talk to people, even though walking to and from church in the dark and the cold was not precisely my idea of fun. *wry*