More plot nibbles
7 September 2017 02:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeMore plot nibbles, now actually embarked upon (thanks to an extremely boring session chopping up many pounds of windfall pears — they were either ripe and full of bug droppings, or whole, underripe and extremely hard!)
The idea of Raoul surprising Christine by being good at dancing (having been subjected to mandatory lessons as part of his aristocratic education) is one that I'd had kicking around for some time, but never developed into anything beyond a vague idea that it would have to be at the masquerade. But while Leroux-Raoul and Christine never danced together in canon, Steve Barton and Sarah Brightman were both trained dancers, so their Raoul and Christine did dance (apparently more than in the current stage show). And in the course of my hours of pear-processing I managed to come up with some associated dialogue ideas that actually go somewhere; enough to make a scene, anyway.
What I hadn't planned for at that stage was Christine spontaneously getting naughty thoughts in the middle :-p
The idea of Raoul surprising Christine by being good at dancing (having been subjected to mandatory lessons as part of his aristocratic education) is one that I'd had kicking around for some time, but never developed into anything beyond a vague idea that it would have to be at the masquerade. But while Leroux-Raoul and Christine never danced together in canon, Steve Barton and Sarah Brightman were both trained dancers, so their Raoul and Christine did dance (apparently more than in the current stage show). And in the course of my hours of pear-processing I managed to come up with some associated dialogue ideas that actually go somewhere; enough to make a scene, anyway.
What I hadn't planned for at that stage was Christine spontaneously getting naughty thoughts in the middle :-p
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Date: 2017-09-07 07:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-07 09:00 pm (UTC)A bit like the major changes to the framing-story of "In Regret, Always" that were necessitated by my discovery of the actual history of French WW1 mobilisation: Raoul ends up having actually gone to war and come back on leave, instead of anticipating a delayed call-up with dread. Because I managed to discover that particular plot-hole at an early stage before I'd written anything, the 'revised' storyline ended up thoroughly woven into subsequently-developed events to a degree that left no trace of the original (likewise the version of the Epilogue to "The Choice of Raoul", where there is no visible remainder of the 'South American' dust-and-adobe-church setting that I'd envisaged before I actually did some research on the banana boat trade and Surinam!)
Unfortunately in the current case I'd already committed ink to paper before discovering that what I'd planned is incompatible with canon (in fact, my planned finale turns out not to make much sense in the context of what we've already seen) which makes it much harder to revise seamlessly :-(