Good morning! Yesterday the last NFE fic was posted, and today the master list of stories is up. I can now tell you about the story I wrote. (And you can laugh at me for my anon!fail, for truly, it is full of fail on that front. Especially after the most recent chapter of "The Courting Dance," which went up just a couple days before my NFE fic. *headdesk*)
Anyway. I wrote Out of Season: In the fourteenth year of Rishti Tisroc's reign, a demon in the shape of a beaver is captured and brought to Tashbaan. Shezan Tolkheera, high priestess of the goddess Achadith, is given the responsibility of guarding the demon until its sacrifice at the Spring Festival. Complications ensue. (26,000 words, background presence of slavery, discussion of and planning for something equivalent to human sacrifice.) The first third was beta-checked by the ever-amazing![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
theodosia21, and the remaining two thirds are entirely my fault.
[ETA: The revised and slightly extended version is now up in three pseudo-chapters on ff.net or as a single file on the AO3.]
There is also a character list for those who want one, since this is a story almost entirely about original characters, and the canon characters who exist are minor side-players or antagonists from The Horse and His Boy rather than the more familiar Narnian cast.
(Actually, "Out of Season" might be more accessible for people not familiar with Narnia than most Narnia fanfiction is -- you can treat it pretty much as an original story that just happens to be set in a world that someone else made up.)
So.
Now I am going to talk about writing!
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My recipient was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lady_songsmith, who asked for the following:
( wherein Liz talks about writing and themes and stuff )
I think, in the end, that while "Out of Season" is not the story I meant to write, it is much better for the changes. And I kind of ship Shezan/Ilgamuth myself. *wry*
Anyway. I wrote Out of Season: In the fourteenth year of Rishti Tisroc's reign, a demon in the shape of a beaver is captured and brought to Tashbaan. Shezan Tolkheera, high priestess of the goddess Achadith, is given the responsibility of guarding the demon until its sacrifice at the Spring Festival. Complications ensue. (26,000 words, background presence of slavery, discussion of and planning for something equivalent to human sacrifice.) The first third was beta-checked by the ever-amazing
theodosia21, and the remaining two thirds are entirely my fault.[ETA: The revised and slightly extended version is now up in three pseudo-chapters on ff.net or as a single file on the AO3.]
There is also a character list for those who want one, since this is a story almost entirely about original characters, and the canon characters who exist are minor side-players or antagonists from The Horse and His Boy rather than the more familiar Narnian cast.
(Actually, "Out of Season" might be more accessible for people not familiar with Narnia than most Narnia fanfiction is -- you can treat it pretty much as an original story that just happens to be set in a world that someone else made up.)
So.
Now I am going to talk about writing!
---------------
My recipient was
lady_songsmith, who asked for the following:( wherein Liz talks about writing and themes and stuff )
I think, in the end, that while "Out of Season" is not the story I meant to write, it is much better for the changes. And I kind of ship Shezan/Ilgamuth myself. *wry*
