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*stares blankly at her Ilgamuth-meets-Rabadash fic*
This was meant to be a quick comment!fic sort of thing. Except it's 4,000 words now. It is turning into a proper war story. I just. Seriously. WTF???
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rthstewart, would you mind horribly if this turns into an accidental Mini-Bang fic for the Narnia Big Bang and you don't get to see it until February? Because I think it might end up that long by the time it lets me finish the expansions.
(The problem, you see, is that the end of the story is all detailed scenes and whatnot, taking place over a single day in Tashbaan, but the beginning was this massively compressed thing that covered a couple months in about three paragraphs. And trying to match those two aspects is turning those paragraphs into lots and lots and lots of detailed scenes, with Rabadash's companions showing up as proper OCs and so on and so forth. *headdesk* I have incurable running-on-at-the-word-processor disease, I really, really do.)
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In other writing news, I opened the files for "Friends and Neighbors" and for "Secrets" ch. 15, and ended up writing a hundred words or so of "Secrets" tonight, in which Ginny and Susan Ward snipe at each other.
The problem with chapter 15, of course, is that I want to match it up to "First You Have to Get There," in which both Susan and Daphne Rumluck are clearly Ginny's friends. Except in "Secrets," Ginny and Daphne loathe each other (which is Ginny's fault at the outset, Daphne's fault later on for not letting it drop, and ultimately makes both of them look unpleasant -- very intentional on my part, btw), and Ginny and Susan dislike each other (which is, again, Ginny's fault but exacerbated by Susan later on, and makes them both look extremely petty). I have gotten Ginny and Daphne to a sort of armed truce, which, given that Ginny and Apple (Daphne's cousin) have mended their fences, is a reasonable setup for slightly barbed friendship three years later, but Ginny and Susan are proving less tractable.
*thwaps them both*
I just want to get through this so I can write Ginny and Xanthe Delaflor being all cute and awkward and friends and saying goodbye at the end of term, and then I can get to the Hogwarts Express and the dramatic reveal of Percy's secret ~girlfriend~, which Ginny has been sitting on for quite a while now. *grin*
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I have not signed up for Yuletide yet. I am still mulling over my fourth request. Three are continuing on from last year -- The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay, Lucifer the comics series by Mike Carey et al, and The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin (subset of the Hainish Cycle, but I only really want fic about Anarres and Urras and the people of those two planets, so) -- but I switch out any fandom I get a story in, and I'm not sure yet which fourth tiny fandom of my heart to ask for.
Probably I will end up asking for some movie with Joseph Gordon-Levitt in it, since that seems to be the theme of my year. *wry* But give me a day or two to pretend I am not quite that shallow.
This was meant to be a quick comment!fic sort of thing. Except it's 4,000 words now. It is turning into a proper war story. I just. Seriously. WTF???
...
Hey,
rthstewart, would you mind horribly if this turns into an accidental Mini-Bang fic for the Narnia Big Bang and you don't get to see it until February? Because I think it might end up that long by the time it lets me finish the expansions.(The problem, you see, is that the end of the story is all detailed scenes and whatnot, taking place over a single day in Tashbaan, but the beginning was this massively compressed thing that covered a couple months in about three paragraphs. And trying to match those two aspects is turning those paragraphs into lots and lots and lots of detailed scenes, with Rabadash's companions showing up as proper OCs and so on and so forth. *headdesk* I have incurable running-on-at-the-word-processor disease, I really, really do.)
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In other writing news, I opened the files for "Friends and Neighbors" and for "Secrets" ch. 15, and ended up writing a hundred words or so of "Secrets" tonight, in which Ginny and Susan Ward snipe at each other.
The problem with chapter 15, of course, is that I want to match it up to "First You Have to Get There," in which both Susan and Daphne Rumluck are clearly Ginny's friends. Except in "Secrets," Ginny and Daphne loathe each other (which is Ginny's fault at the outset, Daphne's fault later on for not letting it drop, and ultimately makes both of them look unpleasant -- very intentional on my part, btw), and Ginny and Susan dislike each other (which is, again, Ginny's fault but exacerbated by Susan later on, and makes them both look extremely petty). I have gotten Ginny and Daphne to a sort of armed truce, which, given that Ginny and Apple (Daphne's cousin) have mended their fences, is a reasonable setup for slightly barbed friendship three years later, but Ginny and Susan are proving less tractable.
*thwaps them both*
I just want to get through this so I can write Ginny and Xanthe Delaflor being all cute and awkward and friends and saying goodbye at the end of term, and then I can get to the Hogwarts Express and the dramatic reveal of Percy's secret ~girlfriend~, which Ginny has been sitting on for quite a while now. *grin*
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I have not signed up for Yuletide yet. I am still mulling over my fourth request. Three are continuing on from last year -- The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay, Lucifer the comics series by Mike Carey et al, and The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin (subset of the Hainish Cycle, but I only really want fic about Anarres and Urras and the people of those two planets, so) -- but I switch out any fandom I get a story in, and I'm not sure yet which fourth tiny fandom of my heart to ask for.
Probably I will end up asking for some movie with Joseph Gordon-Levitt in it, since that seems to be the theme of my year. *wry* But give me a day or two to pretend I am not quite that shallow.
