Fluff fic progress - 2
21 April 2016 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeOops. I forgot that Raoul's nostalgic associations with the "Little Lotte" verse are likely to have shifted considerably after the events of the musical -- however fondly he remembers the actual picnics in the attic, etc :-( Fortunately that section took place as the precursor to a shift into protective mode anyway, so it's easy enough to shade it in a darker direction...
Still not finished, though I must be very near the end now; I've put the Countess in. Maybe another page? I should finish before the end of the notebook, anyway, although I certainly shan't get the 'family' fic in as well, as I had originally fondly imagined.
I'm currently dithering a bit about how to present the story for FFnet, since the beginning was fairly deliberately written as a 'teaser' where it's not made explicit whom Christine is with. A bit of a silly game, really, since I never had any intention of concealing her husband's identity for the entire story, but it becomes entirely pointless if I then label the fanfic upfront as "C/R fluff" (as I had intended) or use the summary format of "In which Raoul gets hot water and Christine gets cold feet" (also seriously considered)
I'm certainly going to tag this as [Raoul,Christine] in the long run so that anyone looking for such stories can actually find it, but I'm distinctly tempted just to tag Christine on the initial upload and use a summary something like "After a week of marriage, Christine needs to make some decisions about her future. (Pure fluff, mainly.)"
(Can a thing even be meaningfully described as 'mainly' pure? Unfortunately despite my best intentions it appears my angst-writing tendencies have a habit of introducing themselves to create added dramatic tension...)
One of my anemones has fallen flat and seems to have snapped off from its root at ground level. Probably mechanical damage from drawing the curtain, I think, rather than rot or insect damage.
Oh well. I have four others and it wasn't doing anything interesting anyway -- just sitting there with its single leaf on a long stalk...
Still not finished, though I must be very near the end now; I've put the Countess in. Maybe another page? I should finish before the end of the notebook, anyway, although I certainly shan't get the 'family' fic in as well, as I had originally fondly imagined.
I'm currently dithering a bit about how to present the story for FFnet, since the beginning was fairly deliberately written as a 'teaser' where it's not made explicit whom Christine is with. A bit of a silly game, really, since I never had any intention of concealing her husband's identity for the entire story, but it becomes entirely pointless if I then label the fanfic upfront as "C/R fluff" (as I had intended) or use the summary format of "In which Raoul gets hot water and Christine gets cold feet" (also seriously considered)
I'm certainly going to tag this as [Raoul,Christine] in the long run so that anyone looking for such stories can actually find it, but I'm distinctly tempted just to tag Christine on the initial upload and use a summary something like "After a week of marriage, Christine needs to make some decisions about her future. (Pure fluff, mainly.)"
(Can a thing even be meaningfully described as 'mainly' pure? Unfortunately despite my best intentions it appears my angst-writing tendencies have a habit of introducing themselves to create added dramatic tension...)
One of my anemones has fallen flat and seems to have snapped off from its root at ground level. Probably mechanical damage from drawing the curtain, I think, rather than rot or insect damage.
Oh well. I have four others and it wasn't doing anything interesting anyway -- just sitting there with its single leaf on a long stalk...
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Date: 2016-04-24 01:01 am (UTC)I still haven't forgotten the reviewer who responded to Count Philippe Takes a Hand (which is verging on C/R smut, inasmuch as that's credible with the Leroux characters) with the jaw-dropping suggestion that Christine was busy having a steamy affair with the Phantom off-stage while using Raoul as a 'front' to cover up the paternity of her children...
I think I am going to tag this one openly, simply for the reason that the opening scene is only about 400 words out of a story that runs nearly 4,000 in its current form and the whole of the rest of the fic is very definite, so the attempt at ambiguity is a bit pointless in that context.