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edenfallingToday is Yuletide reveal day! Here is the story I wrote this year:
Echoes of the Past: Bran and Will have settled happily into ordinary lives, until Jane calls with news of a brewing magical catastrophe on the Isle of Wight. Background Bran/Will. (2,275 words, written for![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
harborshore)
No, I am not the person who wrote the other archeologist!Jane DIR Yuletide fic -- I think we just extrapolated in similar directions from canon. If anything, my story can be read as a later extension of the scenario in I Have a Secret, which I wrote for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rosaxx50 back in August, and which is also where I got the idea of Will following his father into the jewelry business.
Things I want to share about this story: Jane has a large role because I love Jane, and I got the Yuletide mods to ask harborshore if I could include her as another main character even though the request only mentioned Will and Bran. I had the general idea of time slips and a lost land from nearly the beginning, but I was thinking of Doggerland in general (and therefore probably the middle of the North Sea) until fairly late in the game when I ran across an article about excavations around the Isle of Wight which handily simplified several logistical issues. I wanted to write all the way through to the time slips getting fixed, but as may be evident to long-time readers of this journal, I have not been having a great year and I ran out of time. The story as posted therefore ends at the first reasonable stopping point even though that leaves a lot unresolved.
Will and Bran are desperately unromantic because I am still terrible at writing standard romance. And Bran is an aspiring teacher partly because I think the idea of passing on John Rowlands's mentoring would appeal to him and partly because, for reasons related to some of my prior fanfiction, I often like to ask myself whether utterly random characters might do well as teachers, and if so, for what age groups. When I did that exercise for Bran a while back, he struck me as someone who might do fairly well with small children. If nothing else, he has the gift of taking them seriously. And so when I needed an everyday adult career for him, that seemed an obvious choice.
If I have time, I'd like to add the rest of the implicitly promised story to this fic in 2016, but the way my life has been going, I'm afraid it's not very likely to happen. *sigh* (Unemployment and depression suck, and I don't recommend them.)
Ah well. Here's hoping 2016 will be better!
Echoes of the Past: Bran and Will have settled happily into ordinary lives, until Jane calls with news of a brewing magical catastrophe on the Isle of Wight. Background Bran/Will. (2,275 words, written for
No, I am not the person who wrote the other archeologist!Jane DIR Yuletide fic -- I think we just extrapolated in similar directions from canon. If anything, my story can be read as a later extension of the scenario in I Have a Secret, which I wrote for
rosaxx50 back in August, and which is also where I got the idea of Will following his father into the jewelry business.Things I want to share about this story: Jane has a large role because I love Jane, and I got the Yuletide mods to ask harborshore if I could include her as another main character even though the request only mentioned Will and Bran. I had the general idea of time slips and a lost land from nearly the beginning, but I was thinking of Doggerland in general (and therefore probably the middle of the North Sea) until fairly late in the game when I ran across an article about excavations around the Isle of Wight which handily simplified several logistical issues. I wanted to write all the way through to the time slips getting fixed, but as may be evident to long-time readers of this journal, I have not been having a great year and I ran out of time. The story as posted therefore ends at the first reasonable stopping point even though that leaves a lot unresolved.
Will and Bran are desperately unromantic because I am still terrible at writing standard romance. And Bran is an aspiring teacher partly because I think the idea of passing on John Rowlands's mentoring would appeal to him and partly because, for reasons related to some of my prior fanfiction, I often like to ask myself whether utterly random characters might do well as teachers, and if so, for what age groups. When I did that exercise for Bran a while back, he struck me as someone who might do fairly well with small children. If nothing else, he has the gift of taking them seriously. And so when I needed an everyday adult career for him, that seemed an obvious choice.
If I have time, I'd like to add the rest of the implicitly promised story to this fic in 2016, but the way my life has been going, I'm afraid it's not very likely to happen. *sigh* (Unemployment and depression suck, and I don't recommend them.)
Ah well. Here's hoping 2016 will be better!
