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Practicalities of writing
19 December 2017 10:58 pmI'm not all that impressed with my new fountain pen filler - the emergency cartridge I was using lasted for the length of several one-shot stories, but I've been using the filler for a few weeks now, and basically it doesn't fill properly.( Read more... )
The other thing that has become apparent is that the foolscap ledger I've been writing in isn't going to hold nearly so many words as I thought it would, due to the heavy-duty paper; that great fat book only has ninety pages in it (sewn in five sections of eighteen), and I've used 24½ pages already and am only on chapter four. At that rate I only have room for sixteen chapters, which almost certainly won't be enough - I've already split my third plot summary sequence over two chapters, and I've got seventeen of them :-p
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Out of a vague idea that Raoul gets himself into trouble by mistaking one of the sailors on board for the Phantom at the point where he reveals himself, I've managed to end up creating an uncongenial 'room-mate' for him to share a cabin with on board. (Who will presumably end up dying in the wreck and thus giving poor Raoul more angst!) I wanted him to wear spectacles, since it seemed to fit the fussy characterisation and provided a perfect explanation for how Raoul can mistake him for a glimpse of the Phantom's 'burning eyes'. Unfortunately I suspect that nobody whose eyesight was bad enough to need eye-glasses would have been accepted into the French navy of the era; my own grandfather was excused military service for being short-sighted. But it occurred to me that I could probably contrive something with a reflection off the lenses of a pair of binoculars, though it doesn't work quite so well...
The other thing that has become apparent is that the foolscap ledger I've been writing in isn't going to hold nearly so many words as I thought it would, due to the heavy-duty paper; that great fat book only has ninety pages in it (sewn in five sections of eighteen), and I've used 24½ pages already and am only on chapter four. At that rate I only have room for sixteen chapters, which almost certainly won't be enough - I've already split my third plot summary sequence over two chapters, and I've got seventeen of them :-p
( Read more... )
Out of a vague idea that Raoul gets himself into trouble by mistaking one of the sailors on board for the Phantom at the point where he reveals himself, I've managed to end up creating an uncongenial 'room-mate' for him to share a cabin with on board. (Who will presumably end up dying in the wreck and thus giving poor Raoul more angst!) I wanted him to wear spectacles, since it seemed to fit the fussy characterisation and provided a perfect explanation for how Raoul can mistake him for a glimpse of the Phantom's 'burning eyes'. Unfortunately I suspect that nobody whose eyesight was bad enough to need eye-glasses would have been accepted into the French navy of the era; my own grandfather was excused military service for being short-sighted. But it occurred to me that I could probably contrive something with a reflection off the lenses of a pair of binoculars, though it doesn't work quite so well...