Fic progress
26 October 2019 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeAnd... we've finally reached Plot Point Fifteen proper, with the arrival at the hut!
Switched back to Raoul's point of view; after all my worries about whether it made any sense to switch back to Christine at all, I've done about 20,000 words from her viewpoint over the various chapters since the arrival in Paris, i.e. a large chunk of this notebook. The book itself is rapidly disintegrating as the paper spine is worn to ribbons and the covers are ripping off -- the actual stitching is still fairly sound, so I probably ought to glue down new endpapers and apply a cloth spine to the back of the sewn sections before any pages rip out. It's a matter of getting Round To It. (Preferably at a point when I'm not about to want to use the book in the next few hours.)
Twenty-seven blank pages left; another three or four chapters. That won't be enough to finish the novel. Or probably not; I only actually have three more plot points to cover, and two are brief while the other has been planned ahead in a misleading amount of detail and should thus write up relatively briefly compared to the amount of space in the summary. All the same, I think it's a safe assumption that I'll need to start a new notebook before the end.
Now I just need to do justice to this scene, which is supposed to be one of the pivotal points of the whole book...
Having already injured Raoul's arm, I wonder if I ought to be injuring Erik's leg instead? It would pin him down to the hut more effectively; the main reason for mentioning the arm in the summary is to give an explanation for his fainting when Raoul takes hold of him, which would naturally be by the upper body. Raoul isn't very likely to touch his legs.
I also note that in the story as eventually written, Raoul has actually encountered the 'vicious weighted catgut' before, having been attacked by it himself when Erik climbs into his bedroom! Although he never actually saw anything of the weapon, only its end results :-p
Switched back to Raoul's point of view; after all my worries about whether it made any sense to switch back to Christine at all, I've done about 20,000 words from her viewpoint over the various chapters since the arrival in Paris, i.e. a large chunk of this notebook. The book itself is rapidly disintegrating as the paper spine is worn to ribbons and the covers are ripping off -- the actual stitching is still fairly sound, so I probably ought to glue down new endpapers and apply a cloth spine to the back of the sewn sections before any pages rip out. It's a matter of getting Round To It. (Preferably at a point when I'm not about to want to use the book in the next few hours.)
Twenty-seven blank pages left; another three or four chapters. That won't be enough to finish the novel. Or probably not; I only actually have three more plot points to cover, and two are brief while the other has been planned ahead in a misleading amount of detail and should thus write up relatively briefly compared to the amount of space in the summary. All the same, I think it's a safe assumption that I'll need to start a new notebook before the end.
Now I just need to do justice to this scene, which is supposed to be one of the pivotal points of the whole book...
Having already injured Raoul's arm, I wonder if I ought to be injuring Erik's leg instead? It would pin him down to the hut more effectively; the main reason for mentioning the arm in the summary is to give an explanation for his fainting when Raoul takes hold of him, which would naturally be by the upper body. Raoul isn't very likely to touch his legs.
I also note that in the story as eventually written, Raoul has actually encountered the 'vicious weighted catgut' before, having been attacked by it himself when Erik climbs into his bedroom! Although he never actually saw anything of the weapon, only its end results :-p
