LND fic complete!
27 May 2016 12:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeAfter some intensive work today (I took it with me on a couple of walks), "Meg Shoots the Phantom" is finished! Not bad going for only a couple of writing sessions -- though the whole manuscript is only about 1500 words by my reckoning :-D
Anyway, I'm quite pleased with it -- the rearrangement of existing events and lyrics is quite clever, the running time is I think consistent with the existing score, and I can picture it actually being performed. As a piece of writing it's something of a stylistic experiment, of course, but I'm not sure how many people are likely even to notice that.
And it has a proper title: "Redemption", which is what the Phantom is notably lacking in the current version of the scene!
It doesn't avoid one of the basic problems with the plot, which is that Christine gets handed over between one man and another without an apparent agency of her own in the matter, and it's sickeningly sentimental about the Phantom (who is portrayed as rather more noble, in my view, than is consistent with his character in the rest of the show), but both of those are the result of my attempt to come up with a version of the ending that is consistent with Andrew Lloyd Webber's apparent intentions for "Love Never Dies" and one that he might theoretically actually implement. I was slightly nervous about giving ALW a guest appearance in the final paragraphs, as it seems a little too much akin to Real Person Fiction and a little presumptuous to shoehorn a reaction onto someone, but there is a certain tradition of that in this fandom. (And at least I was civil about it!)
Hm, I wonder how I'm going to tag a one-word story title for blogging purposes...
Anyway, I'm quite pleased with it -- the rearrangement of existing events and lyrics is quite clever, the running time is I think consistent with the existing score, and I can picture it actually being performed. As a piece of writing it's something of a stylistic experiment, of course, but I'm not sure how many people are likely even to notice that.
And it has a proper title: "Redemption", which is what the Phantom is notably lacking in the current version of the scene!
It doesn't avoid one of the basic problems with the plot, which is that Christine gets handed over between one man and another without an apparent agency of her own in the matter, and it's sickeningly sentimental about the Phantom (who is portrayed as rather more noble, in my view, than is consistent with his character in the rest of the show), but both of those are the result of my attempt to come up with a version of the ending that is consistent with Andrew Lloyd Webber's apparent intentions for "Love Never Dies" and one that he might theoretically actually implement. I was slightly nervous about giving ALW a guest appearance in the final paragraphs, as it seems a little too much akin to Real Person Fiction and a little presumptuous to shoehorn a reaction onto someone, but there is a certain tradition of that in this fandom. (And at least I was civil about it!)
Hm, I wonder how I'm going to tag a one-word story title for blogging purposes...
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Date: 2016-05-27 06:44 am (UTC)(And I suppose the question is, how likely are you to need to tag for that one word in another context?)
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Date: 2016-05-27 08:15 pm (UTC)Well, I discovered there was a precedent in that I've already (for some unknown reason) chosen to tag all entries referring to "The Sons of Éléonore" as eleonore (instead of, say, s-o-e, which would have been the more normal format). So I've tagged these ones retrospectively simply as redemption, which as you say is not a word I'm likely to use as a tag for anything else.
I probably ought to do a Fiction Masterpost, given that the tags I've been using are so very non-obvious. But then the trouble is that clicking on tagged posts presents everything in reverse order anyway, which isn't terribly desirable if you're actually doing it for reading purposes. And I do wish there was some way of selecting intersecting tags, i.e. all posts tagged 'fic-meta' AND 'c-r-c' or all posts tagged 'love never dies' AND 'head-canon', or all posts tagged 'raoul de chagny' and NOT 'christine' -- as it is, the most general ones (like 'fiction') match so many different posts that they're of very little use in finding the specific thing I'm looking for. But they're the only way of grouping all the posts that are actually stories together.