DrabbleWriMo 30: Flawed
1 December 2021 02:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeAnd... finished. Well, that's certainly three thousand words I wouldn't have written otherwise ;-)
(And a canon I almost certainly wouldn't have written fan-fiction for at all -- I can't even remember why I started, except that I happened to have mentioned that novel a few days before in some context, probably because it's one of the very few of Broster's works that happens to be available online, and therefore I had the book off the shelves and hanging around on the first of November. Though I *have* always had a fellow-feeling for de Brencourt, along with various other deeply flawed anti-heroes...)
I'm actually pretty happy with this as a coherent piece of fanfic, as it has come out in the end -- despite the fact that it started off pretty much literally as random scenes, and large chunks of plot and entire characters have been omitted, not to mention the author's intended ending and hence message! (Not any active revisionism on my part; it was just a matter of where the prompts fitted in, and the point about that whole final sequence is pretty much that Gaston *isn't* 'flawed' any more, so I knew from a long way back that I was going to have trouble with it. But cutting the story short there does reshape the result as de Brencourt's personal epiphany, which works quite well as a theme.)
It would be worthwhile trying to assemble the whole thing and post it to AO3, I think, despite the fact that the 'fandom' doesn't even exist there, and hence the readership would be limited to people who happened to be looking at my profile and I'd have to create my own fandom tag. (Looks as if the format would be "The Yellow Poppy - D. K. Broster"; at least AO3 is capable of coping with a leading 'The' or 'A' for sort purposes, i.e. all my stories beginning with 'The' are not ending up stuffed unhelpfully together towards the bottom of the alphabet :-p)
I would, of course, need a title -- and a decision as to how many 'chapters' to post it in, especially given that some of the scenes are sequential and some are widely separated in order of occurrence.
(And a canon I almost certainly wouldn't have written fan-fiction for at all -- I can't even remember why I started, except that I happened to have mentioned that novel a few days before in some context, probably because it's one of the very few of Broster's works that happens to be available online, and therefore I had the book off the shelves and hanging around on the first of November. Though I *have* always had a fellow-feeling for de Brencourt, along with various other deeply flawed anti-heroes...)
Outside, the world had begun to thaw. He would have abased himself at her feet if it could have brought comfort, but nothing now could do so; himself least of all. Those efforts to spare her had come close to breaking them both.
The Abbé was to take her to Mirabel, to pay her last respects.
"And I?" He could not look up. "If I might— if I dared think—"
Her instant acceptance meant more than any happiness he might once have hoped for. So too, falling from her lips after all that had passed, did the simple word 'friend'.
I'm actually pretty happy with this as a coherent piece of fanfic, as it has come out in the end -- despite the fact that it started off pretty much literally as random scenes, and large chunks of plot and entire characters have been omitted, not to mention the author's intended ending and hence message! (Not any active revisionism on my part; it was just a matter of where the prompts fitted in, and the point about that whole final sequence is pretty much that Gaston *isn't* 'flawed' any more, so I knew from a long way back that I was going to have trouble with it. But cutting the story short there does reshape the result as de Brencourt's personal epiphany, which works quite well as a theme.)
It would be worthwhile trying to assemble the whole thing and post it to AO3, I think, despite the fact that the 'fandom' doesn't even exist there, and hence the readership would be limited to people who happened to be looking at my profile and I'd have to create my own fandom tag. (Looks as if the format would be "The Yellow Poppy - D. K. Broster"; at least AO3 is capable of coping with a leading 'The' or 'A' for sort purposes, i.e. all my stories beginning with 'The' are not ending up stuffed unhelpfully together towards the bottom of the alphabet :-p)
I would, of course, need a title -- and a decision as to how many 'chapters' to post it in, especially given that some of the scenes are sequential and some are widely separated in order of occurrence.
