"Dear Old Friend"
8 March 2014 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeAnother half(?) chapter done on the new story, and lots of dialogue ideas for the rest; I just hope I can remember them all tomorrow. Struggling to keep my eyes open at the moment after about three hours' sleep last night...
The main problem with this one is that the characters seem to be constantly struggling to 'ship' themselves, however swiftly I keep telling them they're supposed to be just friends! I need to keep quite a close eye on it to make sure I actually meet the terms of the challenge, because quite frankly the natural trend of this final scene is for the mother and father of the groom to meet again at the wedding, discover that they're both happier now that they've grown beyond the problems of their youth, and... fall in love all over again :-) The way Christine is looking at Raoul is not altogether impartial at the moment, even if the original intent was only to show that he has got older.
The story now has a provisional full title of "Dear Old Friend" (what, after all, could be more appropriate to the intended plot-line?) with chapters named as "The Debts we Owe", "All I Ask of You" and "So Glad You're Here".
The main problem with this one is that the characters seem to be constantly struggling to 'ship' themselves, however swiftly I keep telling them they're supposed to be just friends! I need to keep quite a close eye on it to make sure I actually meet the terms of the challenge, because quite frankly the natural trend of this final scene is for the mother and father of the groom to meet again at the wedding, discover that they're both happier now that they've grown beyond the problems of their youth, and... fall in love all over again :-) The way Christine is looking at Raoul is not altogether impartial at the moment, even if the original intent was only to show that he has got older.
The story now has a provisional full title of "Dear Old Friend" (what, after all, could be more appropriate to the intended plot-line?) with chapters named as "The Debts we Owe", "All I Ask of You" and "So Glad You're Here".