2019-09-21

igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)
2019-09-21 01:03 am
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Back to Sweden

I managed to polish off plot point 13 in a single chapter :-)

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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...
igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)
2019-09-21 09:54 pm
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"Cheap and Easy", Rose Elliot

I picked up a second-hand copy of a later cookery book by Rose Elliot to go with the 1970s volumes I already have, and have been very favourably impressed by the two recipes I tried, both of which 'simply worked'Read more... )