wherein Liz babbles about fanfiction and stuff

[edenfalling]

I bought vol. 18 of Angel Sanctuary on Saturday, and omg it makes so much more sense in a decent translation! The scanlations I've been using get kind of... weird in the last few volumes, you see, so it's very nice to have something coherent to work from. It's especially nice because it's only in volumes 18-20 that we finally get all the backstory on Alexiel and Lucifer's relationship, the nature and origin of Rosiel's madness, and stuff like that.

I need that information for nefarious fanfiction purposes, and at the moment I'm effectively reduced to crossing my fingers and hoping I've made a justifiable interpretation of somebody's semi-mangled English.

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In other news, chapter 12 of "Lemonade" is at 475 words (everyone is pissed off at everyone else, understandably), and chapter 11 of "Guardian" is now at 1,225 words. I arbitrarily yanked a character out of "Guardian," which will require a tiny tweak to chapter 10 to remove her implicit presence, but which otherwise makes things much simpler. The fewer characters I'm dealing with, the easier it is to write, and this removal also does away with an extra source of mission-related complications.

This story creates enough complications on its own, through the progression of narrative logic. The last thing I need to do is throw even more ingredients into the plot machine.

I will say, though, that Naga and Kafunnokaze are just plain fun to write. Ah, young love and premeditated murder. :-)

Comments

[bewize.livejournal.com]

Hehehehe, I don't suppose if I bat my eyelashes and give you a puppy dog face it might inspire some more "Secrets" from you? *decides to try it and gives you puppy dog eyes*

Seriously, I'm not nagging (or even begging yet), but I'm nearly caught up to where you're finished writing at the moment. *thinks* Hmmmm, of course, I've not left FB yet, so I can see your reluctance...

Okay, I shall catch up with FB! But it's *fantastic* and I'm anxious to see what happens!

[edenfalling]

Hmm. Well, chapter 11 is back from beta and I've done the easy corrections. I've just been avoiding the hard part, which is completely restructuring the final scene to fix the giant plot and thematic wrongness that lasultrix kindly pointed out to me. It's more fun to write new stuff than to go back and do messy, intricate surgery on something already written, you see.

But because you asked nicely, I will do my best to have chapter 11 up sometime this weekend. :-) (I make absolutely no promises about chapter 12, though.)