Fic progress
2 April 2024 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeRight, I *think* I finished "The Remorse of Others" last night (bar a bit more possible tinkering with the final paragraphs). Which means I now have to go back and try to fix the supposedly 'fandom-blind' beginning...
I'm still not very happy about the story; I don't think it feels anything like as successful as White Night or 'My Dear Vicky...', both of which were written for obscure fandoms with accessibility in mind. I'm not convinced this one really even feels true to the original work :-( There are moments when I think I nailed canon Roland's thought patterns and character, but there are too many when it just feels like self-obsessed fanfic (of the 'oh woe, poor Phantom' type).
And we still have the problem that the viewpoint character isn't *actually* the protagonist -- not necessarily an issue, as witness Holmes and Watson, and the viewpoint character being pretty much as clueless about what is going on as the fandom-blind reader isn't necessarily a problem either. But the ongoing issue remains that the author's real point of interest is simply not the natural concern of the individual through whose eyes it is perforce being depicted, which means that I am constantly in danger of pulling Roland out of character for my own purposes -- unfair to him, and unedifying so far as I am concerned...
I'm still not very happy about the story; I don't think it feels anything like as successful as White Night or 'My Dear Vicky...', both of which were written for obscure fandoms with accessibility in mind. I'm not convinced this one really even feels true to the original work :-( There are moments when I think I nailed canon Roland's thought patterns and character, but there are too many when it just feels like self-obsessed fanfic (of the 'oh woe, poor Phantom' type).
And we still have the problem that the viewpoint character isn't *actually* the protagonist -- not necessarily an issue, as witness Holmes and Watson, and the viewpoint character being pretty much as clueless about what is going on as the fandom-blind reader isn't necessarily a problem either. But the ongoing issue remains that the author's real point of interest is simply not the natural concern of the individual through whose eyes it is perforce being depicted, which means that I am constantly in danger of pulling Roland out of character for my own purposes -- unfair to him, and unedifying so far as I am concerned...