21 December 2014

igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Horizon)
It's amusing to watch the way that Raoul keeps intruding into what is supposed to be a hurt/comfort scene between Meg and the Phantom... but my goodness, I find it hard to create a scenario in which Meg (or anyone else) would be attracted to the latter :-(

He's about thirty years older than she is, selfish, inconsiderate, callous, immature (ironically enough), and obsessively in love with another woman. Oh, and he's physically so hideous that people run away screaming if they catch sight of him without prior warning. Writing a Meg who is hankering after that is confoundedly difficult -- especially since all her story in the original "Phantom of the Opera" is of protecting and defending Christine against him.



I think I'm going for the "All the Rules Rearranged" title for this story (and hence am tagging previous posts accordingly).
The Meg scene is running so long (approx 5,000 words again -- for some reason the chapters in this story move with the speed of mud) that I can't combine it with the short epilogue that I'd planned from Gustave's point of view, so that will evidently have to stand on its own as a fifth chapter. So much for my original three-chapter concept!
I've got quite a lot of notes for it, since writing Gustave's views on his parents comes much more easily to me than writing Meg angsting about the Phantom(!), but they are of such a detailed nature that I'm not sure how much they will expand. It should be enough for a short standalone chapter, anyway -- a coupleĀ of thousand words?

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