Fanfic progress
18 December 2018 02:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeHaving embarked on the 'Christmas' Crimson Peak story (which really has practically no relevance to Christmas, and therefore definitely won't win the challenge), somewhat to my surprise I'm finding it running over-length. I suppose that's my fault for trying to get multiple Christmas references in alongside the original concept of Lucille at her own inquest...
After some intensive work alongside my already insanely busy schedule over the last few days, I've now got 16 pages at approx. 300 words/page, which is well over the 4000-word limit for this challenge, and the story isn't finished. I managed to get the inquest into about 1000 words (or at least up to my 'grand reveal', which is unfortunately only revealing to the character what the readership already knows) but I still have to do my finale between Edith and Lucille... and work out exactly how it goes and where it takes place :-p
It can't be in the courtroom -- maybe actually in front of the bodies, so that Lucille has to face facts?
I do wonder a little if it might not be possible to drop the inquest altogether, as it's only retelling the events of the film. But the inquest is sort of the whole excuse for the earlier scene between Edith and Alan (well, maybe I could cut that too :-D), and the recap is helpful for a non-fandom challenge readership (which, let's face it, is the only one I look likely to get -- still zero reviews on the other two Crimson Peak fics, although my efforts at 'promotion' did push up the page view figures considerably, from 2 to 29).
The other 'long' passage is the Enola/baby one, and that could probably be cut down a bit. Sadly it's the extraneous small details (like small Thomas's Christmas decorations, for example) that are the obvious deadwood and that I'm loth to lose. :-(
I haven't done any more work on Nautical Raoul, due to having the Christmas deadline on this challenge entry. It's not as if anyone is waiting with bated breath for the novel to come out, or that it's likely to be especially popular when it does, or that these shipboard chapters are likely to be popular at all anyway :-(
I'm hoping it will sit comfortably on the back burner for a bit and that I'll be able to get back into it again without any trouble once I've wrapped up this one...
After some intensive work alongside my already insanely busy schedule over the last few days, I've now got 16 pages at approx. 300 words/page, which is well over the 4000-word limit for this challenge, and the story isn't finished. I managed to get the inquest into about 1000 words (or at least up to my 'grand reveal', which is unfortunately only revealing to the character what the readership already knows) but I still have to do my finale between Edith and Lucille... and work out exactly how it goes and where it takes place :-p
It can't be in the courtroom -- maybe actually in front of the bodies, so that Lucille has to face facts?
I do wonder a little if it might not be possible to drop the inquest altogether, as it's only retelling the events of the film. But the inquest is sort of the whole excuse for the earlier scene between Edith and Alan (well, maybe I could cut that too :-D), and the recap is helpful for a non-fandom challenge readership (which, let's face it, is the only one I look likely to get -- still zero reviews on the other two Crimson Peak fics, although my efforts at 'promotion' did push up the page view figures considerably, from 2 to 29).
The other 'long' passage is the Enola/baby one, and that could probably be cut down a bit. Sadly it's the extraneous small details (like small Thomas's Christmas decorations, for example) that are the obvious deadwood and that I'm loth to lose. :-(
I haven't done any more work on Nautical Raoul, due to having the Christmas deadline on this challenge entry. It's not as if anyone is waiting with bated breath for the novel to come out, or that it's likely to be especially popular when it does, or that these shipboard chapters are likely to be popular at all anyway :-(
I'm hoping it will sit comfortably on the back burner for a bit and that I'll be able to get back into it again without any trouble once I've wrapped up this one...
