The start of a story
20 January 2023 12:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeWell, I've actually started on the crackfic prompt about Perrette's daughter :-)
And exactly as predicted, it has almost immediately turned from any sort of attempt at humour into a perfectly straight R/C fic, which is what almost invariably happens as soon as you get inside Raoul's head -- apparently the boy simply can't think about anything else! (To be fair, at this precise point in the original story he is in fact busy sneaking off surreptitiously to Perros-Guirec with the explicit intention of trying to seek out Christine again, so he really *isn't* likely to have anything else on his mind right now...)
But I do need to get Perrette and her daughter back into it, since to date Raoul has noticed them for a grand total of half a passing sentence :-p
(I was going to call the daughter Guillemette, which is a nice old-fashioned† -- and hence countrified -- feminine version of Guillaume, but it sounds a bit awkward to my ear to have Perrette and Guillemette in the same family, even if it's simply because they're both feminine/diminutive forms. So she will probably simply be Agathe, which suprisingly enough I don't appear to have used anywhere as an oldfashioned peasant/servant name.)
†[Edit: a a bit more old-fashioned than I'd realised! And apparently there actually was a feminine 'Honnorée', back in the Middle Ages...]
About 450 words written so far; the new notebook turns out to run at approximately 100 words/side, which seems a suspiciously round number but probably simply means that the unorthodox page size is an exact ratio of the metric A4/A5 pages :-p
It is a thing of great beauty, with a flexible binding of tooled and thong-bound leather (a little thick to clip your fountain-pen onto, unfortunately) and hand-stitched pages of square handmade paper, which rather to my surprise turn out actually to have been sized, which means you can write on them with wet ink without the lines bleeding everywhere. So it is actually practical to write in.
I suspect it was originally an expensive present unwanted by somebody, but it is yet another manuscript book to be carried around and have fanfiction written in it now :-D
NB: the bias binding on the neck of my pyjamas has worked beautifully. I have had no further discomfort at all, and my hemming survived the washing machine in perfect condition! Thank goodness for that.
And exactly as predicted, it has almost immediately turned from any sort of attempt at humour into a perfectly straight R/C fic, which is what almost invariably happens as soon as you get inside Raoul's head -- apparently the boy simply can't think about anything else! (To be fair, at this precise point in the original story he is in fact busy sneaking off surreptitiously to Perros-Guirec with the explicit intention of trying to seek out Christine again, so he really *isn't* likely to have anything else on his mind right now...)
But I do need to get Perrette and her daughter back into it, since to date Raoul has noticed them for a grand total of half a passing sentence :-p
(I was going to call the daughter Guillemette, which is a nice old-fashioned† -- and hence countrified -- feminine version of Guillaume, but it sounds a bit awkward to my ear to have Perrette and Guillemette in the same family, even if it's simply because they're both feminine/diminutive forms. So she will probably simply be Agathe, which suprisingly enough I don't appear to have used anywhere as an oldfashioned peasant/servant name.)
†[Edit: a a bit more old-fashioned than I'd realised! And apparently there actually was a feminine 'Honnorée', back in the Middle Ages...]
About 450 words written so far; the new notebook turns out to run at approximately 100 words/side, which seems a suspiciously round number but probably simply means that the unorthodox page size is an exact ratio of the metric A4/A5 pages :-p
It is a thing of great beauty, with a flexible binding of tooled and thong-bound leather (a little thick to clip your fountain-pen onto, unfortunately) and hand-stitched pages of square handmade paper, which rather to my surprise turn out actually to have been sized, which means you can write on them with wet ink without the lines bleeding everywhere. So it is actually practical to write in.
I suspect it was originally an expensive present unwanted by somebody, but it is yet another manuscript book to be carried around and have fanfiction written in it now :-D
NB: the bias binding on the neck of my pyjamas has worked beautifully. I have had no further discomfort at all, and my hemming survived the washing machine in perfect condition! Thank goodness for that.