Fic progress
29 November 2017 01:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeFirst chapter of the still-unnamed 'Swedish fic' finished, at about 3000 words. (I'm using a salvaged foolscap notebook dating from some time between 1917 and nineteen-thirty-something -- judging by the dates on the official stationery -- and I'm not quite sure how many words to a page I write in foolscap. I counted the first page and it seemed to be coming out about the same as A4.)
So that covers the first sentence of my summary ;-p
(Looking back at the summary, I note that it's actually changed a bit even from that -- which accounts for the panic I had this afternoon when I realised that the sentence in which Christine tells Raoul firmly that she intends to forget him didn't really fit in with future developments which rely on her writing him a letter! But I think we can shoe-horn in a bit where he begs her to send a letter to his ship, then ironically ends up hoping desperately that she sticks to her resolution and doesn't -- in fact, come to think of it, that might even work better than Christine just randomly deciding to try the experiment :-)
Right, now for the Philippe backstory.
That was one of the unexpected inspirations that prompted me into deciding that the story was actually going somewhere, but in the light of the completed plot it strikes me as a bit extraneous, unfortunately -- we see Philippe again at the end, but I don't currently see how we can link back to justify the inclusion of all this stuff on his past, which is basically litttle more than a digression. It would need to play in to his relationship with Christine somehow...
So that covers the first sentence of my summary ;-p
(Looking back at the summary, I note that it's actually changed a bit even from that -- which accounts for the panic I had this afternoon when I realised that the sentence in which Christine tells Raoul firmly that she intends to forget him didn't really fit in with future developments which rely on her writing him a letter! But I think we can shoe-horn in a bit where he begs her to send a letter to his ship, then ironically ends up hoping desperately that she sticks to her resolution and doesn't -- in fact, come to think of it, that might even work better than Christine just randomly deciding to try the experiment :-)
Right, now for the Philippe backstory.
That was one of the unexpected inspirations that prompted me into deciding that the story was actually going somewhere, but in the light of the completed plot it strikes me as a bit extraneous, unfortunately -- we see Philippe again at the end, but I don't currently see how we can link back to justify the inclusion of all this stuff on his past, which is basically litttle more than a digression. It would need to play in to his relationship with Christine somehow...