Chapter 2 conquered
12 November 2014 02:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeFinally finished the second (Raoul-PoV) chapter of the new story, with much labour. It seems to have come out at about 5,000 words, so possibly I don't need to split the long first chapter either.
Visual side-effect of switching to an A4 notebook after a sub-A5 notebook, I strongly suspect... and of very slow writing where I'm fumbling to get back into the story repeatedly. (I do tend to get the impression that most of the incredibly long fanfics on fanfiction.net are the ones where the authors are making it up as they go along without any clear idea of the plot... but maybe I'm just jaundiced because I'm completely incapable of generating that many words myself, and I have to 'win' at everything...)
I didn't actually take this on to the intended finishing point of the chapter (where they go off and find a new hotel for the night, the old one having uncomfortable associations), since I was struck by inspiration for how to deal with the Phantom's puzzling disappearance at this point :-) The original truth being, of course, that I simply wasn't interested enough in the character to wonder why he would walk off with Meg and let Christine go; but Raoul's long-scheduled retort of She wants you... God knows why cuts both ways, of course. And I'd already changed the ending of the first chapter on impulse to try to humanise the rather unsympathetic Phantom, so it ties back to that quite neatly.
The result, however, is that I shall have to add an extra half-scene into the start of the final chapter and deal with the end of the pier sequence from Christine's point of view instead -- or do it as a flashback, which would be pretty much par for the course :-p
I'm still not sure about the title of the story; the obvious and intended title was "If You Still Love Me", but I discovered that there is already a Raoul-friendly story by that name -- one that's even present in my own Rescue Raoul! collection -- which is slightly embarrassing. Ironically the title actually fits my story better than hers, since the whole thing revolves around Raoul's doubts as to whether his 'unfaithful' wife does still love him... but the two stories are close enough in concept that it's an awkward resemblance :-(
I can't immediately think of a good alternative, though.
Visual side-effect of switching to an A4 notebook after a sub-A5 notebook, I strongly suspect... and of very slow writing where I'm fumbling to get back into the story repeatedly. (I do tend to get the impression that most of the incredibly long fanfics on fanfiction.net are the ones where the authors are making it up as they go along without any clear idea of the plot... but maybe I'm just jaundiced because I'm completely incapable of generating that many words myself, and I have to 'win' at everything...)
I didn't actually take this on to the intended finishing point of the chapter (where they go off and find a new hotel for the night, the old one having uncomfortable associations), since I was struck by inspiration for how to deal with the Phantom's puzzling disappearance at this point :-) The original truth being, of course, that I simply wasn't interested enough in the character to wonder why he would walk off with Meg and let Christine go; but Raoul's long-scheduled retort of She wants you... God knows why cuts both ways, of course. And I'd already changed the ending of the first chapter on impulse to try to humanise the rather unsympathetic Phantom, so it ties back to that quite neatly.
The result, however, is that I shall have to add an extra half-scene into the start of the final chapter and deal with the end of the pier sequence from Christine's point of view instead -- or do it as a flashback, which would be pretty much par for the course :-p
I'm still not sure about the title of the story; the obvious and intended title was "If You Still Love Me", but I discovered that there is already a Raoul-friendly story by that name -- one that's even present in my own Rescue Raoul! collection -- which is slightly embarrassing. Ironically the title actually fits my story better than hers, since the whole thing revolves around Raoul's doubts as to whether his 'unfaithful' wife does still love him... but the two stories are close enough in concept that it's an awkward resemblance :-(
I can't immediately think of a good alternative, though.
