wherein Liz is tired and grumpy
Jun. 10th, 2016 05:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingI'm working on my last mini-ficlet prompt meme fill (Susan and Lucy Pevensie have An Adventure that begins in the Cair Paravel pantry and involves some rambunctious Talking Otter cubs), and I have hit A Dilemma. See, I have passed my minimum length requirement (500 words), and now I have two choices:
1) Wrap the thing up in one more scene and end on a dramatic (but cheerful) cliffhanger as the Adventure begins, which shouldn't take more than another 250 words.
2) Actually write the whole ridiculous Adventure in moderate detail, which would probably take at least 1500 words -- quite possibly more -- and require me to actually think about a bunch of logistical stuff and family bickering and four very young and very bouncy OCs.
Ideally the answer would be #2, but I am kind of tired and really ought to be working on my WIP Big Bang entry, and I don't know if I am up to cheerful shenanigans at the moment. *sigh*
...I think I'll go take a short nap and hope things look clearer afterward.
1) Wrap the thing up in one more scene and end on a dramatic (but cheerful) cliffhanger as the Adventure begins, which shouldn't take more than another 250 words.
2) Actually write the whole ridiculous Adventure in moderate detail, which would probably take at least 1500 words -- quite possibly more -- and require me to actually think about a bunch of logistical stuff and family bickering and four very young and very bouncy OCs.
Ideally the answer would be #2, but I am kind of tired and really ought to be working on my WIP Big Bang entry, and I don't know if I am up to cheerful shenanigans at the moment. *sigh*
...I think I'll go take a short nap and hope things look clearer afterward.
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Date: 2016-06-11 01:02 am (UTC)Jadis has been pretty unhappy with ruling Narnia because the whole point of doing it, from her point of view, was to hurt Aslan and she's had no sign that he's even noticed. I'm taking the backstory from my fic, Faded Colors, for Jadis, so she's been alive for a very, very long time without any of the things that she once considered essential. All the pleasures of the flesh are barred to her (that seemed like the thing most likely to make her wish for immortality something that would come true in a way she would regret). She kind of wants to die, but admitting that would be admitting weakness. It's not something that she can accept in herself.
She decides that the Pevensies can be a long term project, just to see what she can teach them, what she can turn them into. She has some vague idea that putting them on the thrones as her puppets might be interesting, but that's not really her goal. It's also still not satisfying because, much as she hopes it might upset Aslan, he still hasn't shown up or given any indication that he's noticed.
I'm writing from Jadis' POV in part because I don't think I can bear to write it from any of the children's points of view. But I also find her kind of fascinating in the truths and lies she tells herself and in the things she doesn't look at.