December Challenge
12 December 2018 03:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeWell, I've officially started my third "Crimson Peak" story, this one from Lucille's point of view (I just need to do an Edith, and then I'd have a complete set!)
I'm trying to bear in mind that if it gets reviewed by anyone it's likely to be by fandom-blind people on Writers Anonymous, so it needs to supply enough hints as to canon events (since this takes place post-canon) for people to be able to pick up on them where necessary. Conversely, for reasons known only to myself, I seem to have set out to try to write it without actually mentioning Lucille's name (on the grounds that at the beginning of the story she can't remember who she is :-p) I suppose having a protagonist with convenient amnesia is one good excuse for recapitulating events that the fandom already knows...
So far I'm quite pleased with the snippets of childhood backstory that I've been making up; I'm trying to avoid being influenced by the Nancy Horden novelisation (which I got from the library) or by darkety-dark-dark 'mature' fanfic (e.g. where Lucille is raped by her father/by random peasants in the grounds...)
I'm trying to bear in mind that if it gets reviewed by anyone it's likely to be by fandom-blind people on Writers Anonymous, so it needs to supply enough hints as to canon events (since this takes place post-canon) for people to be able to pick up on them where necessary. Conversely, for reasons known only to myself, I seem to have set out to try to write it without actually mentioning Lucille's name (on the grounds that at the beginning of the story she can't remember who she is :-p) I suppose having a protagonist with convenient amnesia is one good excuse for recapitulating events that the fandom already knows...
So far I'm quite pleased with the snippets of childhood backstory that I've been making up; I'm trying to avoid being influenced by the Nancy Horden novelisation (which I got from the library) or by darkety-dark-dark 'mature' fanfic (e.g. where Lucille is raped by her father/by random peasants in the grounds...)