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Back to Sweden
I managed to polish off plot point 13 in a single chapter :-)
Well, the first couple of sentences had been incorporated in the end of the previous chapter already... (although, in this version, tracking down the Phantom is Christine's initiative and not Raoul's. I have to know. There has to be an end to it, one way or another. Either Erik is going to come after us, or we have to go after him.)
I hadn't anticipated just how awkward it would be in practice that Raoul can't speak Swedish -- he really doesn't have any idea what's going on until Christine can subsequently explain to him. I ended up having to send him out of the room during Christine's scene with Greta, because it was just too silly having him hovering around looking blank ;-p
I'm not quite sure about the offstage marriage; the plot just takes it for granted that they get married between chapters and then the story goes on, but fan-fiction tends to expect The Marriage (and then The Wedding Night!) to be the climax of the whole story, so I'm not sure how I'm going to manage it. I mean, even in most novels the protagonists getting married to one another is reckoned to be a pretty big thing.
The only exception that immediately springs to mind is Georgette Heyer's "The Convenient Marriage", where the wedding happens between chapters 4 and 5 without any fanfare...
Well, the first couple of sentences had been incorporated in the end of the previous chapter already... (although, in this version, tracking down the Phantom is Christine's initiative and not Raoul's. I have to know. There has to be an end to it, one way or another. Either Erik is going to come after us, or we have to go after him.)
I hadn't anticipated just how awkward it would be in practice that Raoul can't speak Swedish -- he really doesn't have any idea what's going on until Christine can subsequently explain to him. I ended up having to send him out of the room during Christine's scene with Greta, because it was just too silly having him hovering around looking blank ;-p
I'm not quite sure about the offstage marriage; the plot just takes it for granted that they get married between chapters and then the story goes on, but fan-fiction tends to expect The Marriage (and then The Wedding Night!) to be the climax of the whole story, so I'm not sure how I'm going to manage it. I mean, even in most novels the protagonists getting married to one another is reckoned to be a pretty big thing.
The only exception that immediately springs to mind is Georgette Heyer's "The Convenient Marriage", where the wedding happens between chapters 4 and 5 without any fanfare...