Seeds, seedlings and progress
25 March 2024 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodePricked out the nasturtiums and poached-egg plants, some spare kale seedlings, the marigolds, and the (one) tomato, for the mini-greenhouse. Interestingly there was no sign whatsover of the paper towelling left in the pot, so it had completely biodegraded over the course of only three weeks! The difference in size between that tomato seedling and the chilli seedlings planted at the same time and kept in the same conditions is incredible...
Sowed pak choi (end of commercial seed), rocket (1 pot old commercial seed, 1 pot saved from last year) pink poppy (I think we are going to have plenty of red poppies...), blue Swan River Daisy, and mesembryanthemum and another square of towel-tomatoes (indoors).
I am still battling away at "The Remorse of Others" (and trying to make it fit the title a little better), having decided that I simply couldn't end the fic either with Roland following de Brencourt out of the door (as I had originally intended) or with the two of them in a hire-carriage on the way to Mirabel (which was my next expected end-point). The characters have spent so much of this scene angsting about the question of travelling to see Gaston de Trélan's dead body that I ended up driven to the conclusion that the story really does need to show them actually viewing it, because otherwise (authorial intention or not) the story is going to come across to the reader as incomplete. Which means I now need to show Valentine as an actual character in person, and tie in with the final chapter of the original novel as well, as opposed to just the events of the penultimate one.
I think it's the right decision, because it makes the whole thing feel more balanced and swings the focus back to Gaston's death and Roland's feelings about that, as opposed to his awkward relationship with de Brencourt -- which may have been what I originally wanted to write about, but is not going to be Roland's own priority at this point. But as a result I'm now writing an entire extra scene/location... although probably not long enough to make this a two-shot instead of a one-shot.
It does also introduce another fandom-blindness issue in the shape of the unfortunate Abbé Chassin, who in canon was asked to wait outside at Mirabel to meet de Brencourt and Roland when they arrived. The trouble with that is that while I *have* managed to introduce a mention of his existence into the earlier dialogue, the section where de Brencourt explained that he had returned unexpectedly that morning while Roland was out (and added that he would explain more later) was on the page that got cut because it just wasn't working. So canonically Roland has no idea at the start of the story that the the Abbé is even in the country, let alone with Madame de Trélan at Mirabel, and the reader has no reason to expect him at Mirabel either, so I have simply avoided mentioning him altogether. He ought, however, to be in the scene, as in canon he certainly would have gone to meet them!
Sowed pak choi (end of commercial seed), rocket (1 pot old commercial seed, 1 pot saved from last year) pink poppy (I think we are going to have plenty of red poppies...), blue Swan River Daisy, and mesembryanthemum and another square of towel-tomatoes (indoors).
I am still battling away at "The Remorse of Others" (and trying to make it fit the title a little better), having decided that I simply couldn't end the fic either with Roland following de Brencourt out of the door (as I had originally intended) or with the two of them in a hire-carriage on the way to Mirabel (which was my next expected end-point). The characters have spent so much of this scene angsting about the question of travelling to see Gaston de Trélan's dead body that I ended up driven to the conclusion that the story really does need to show them actually viewing it, because otherwise (authorial intention or not) the story is going to come across to the reader as incomplete. Which means I now need to show Valentine as an actual character in person, and tie in with the final chapter of the original novel as well, as opposed to just the events of the penultimate one.
I think it's the right decision, because it makes the whole thing feel more balanced and swings the focus back to Gaston's death and Roland's feelings about that, as opposed to his awkward relationship with de Brencourt -- which may have been what I originally wanted to write about, but is not going to be Roland's own priority at this point. But as a result I'm now writing an entire extra scene/location... although probably not long enough to make this a two-shot instead of a one-shot.
It does also introduce another fandom-blindness issue in the shape of the unfortunate Abbé Chassin, who in canon was asked to wait outside at Mirabel to meet de Brencourt and Roland when they arrived. The trouble with that is that while I *have* managed to introduce a mention of his existence into the earlier dialogue, the section where de Brencourt explained that he had returned unexpectedly that morning while Roland was out (and added that he would explain more later) was on the page that got cut because it just wasn't working. So canonically Roland has no idea at the start of the story that the the Abbé is even in the country, let alone with Madame de Trélan at Mirabel, and the reader has no reason to expect him at Mirabel either, so I have simply avoided mentioning him altogether. He ought, however, to be in the scene, as in canon he certainly would have gone to meet them!