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igenlodeFinally finished "If I were Vicomte" after all those years; it only took about a week in the end, though it always feels like longer when you're actually in the throes of doing it. There's nothing like actually starting a project for getting it completed!
The pacing is a bit weird, since the vast majority of it is occupied by the first couple of childhood scenes and the actual canon material is summarised in a pair of short flashbacks following. Partly design and partly space constraint, though I think I really do need to pad out the final Breton scene a bit (a.k.a. put in some descriptive introduction). It is a bit unbalanced though :-(
I've typed up the first 'chapter' of "There is no Phantom" (inevitably finding it less good on revisiting it than I did in the euphoria of having finished writing it) and discovered that my estimate of average word count based on early pages was definitely exaggerated; this little book runs more like 120 words per page than 140, which means the entire story will be closer to 3,500 words than 4,000. If I do split it, they will be very short chapters.
This also implies a similar length for "If I were Vicomte" (which runs 30 pages rather than 28·5). Depressing that it takes so much effort to achieve such a slender result!
The first two flowers to emerge out of my smaller second tray were, predictably, yet another daisy and another Jacob's ladder, but I now have two more that didn't germinate in the first batch at all. The big bushy thistle-like thing turns out to be an ageratum:
And the second is heartsease:
The pacing is a bit weird, since the vast majority of it is occupied by the first couple of childhood scenes and the actual canon material is summarised in a pair of short flashbacks following. Partly design and partly space constraint, though I think I really do need to pad out the final Breton scene a bit (a.k.a. put in some descriptive introduction). It is a bit unbalanced though :-(
I've typed up the first 'chapter' of "There is no Phantom" (inevitably finding it less good on revisiting it than I did in the euphoria of having finished writing it) and discovered that my estimate of average word count based on early pages was definitely exaggerated; this little book runs more like 120 words per page than 140, which means the entire story will be closer to 3,500 words than 4,000. If I do split it, they will be very short chapters.
This also implies a similar length for "If I were Vicomte" (which runs 30 pages rather than 28·5). Depressing that it takes so much effort to achieve such a slender result!
The first two flowers to emerge out of my smaller second tray were, predictably, yet another daisy and another Jacob's ladder, but I now have two more that didn't germinate in the first batch at all. The big bushy thistle-like thing turns out to be an ageratum:
And the second is heartsease: