Prompted as usual by pedanther

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Apparently I've only completed one story this year -- and not entirely due to "continuing work on the Swedish story" for once! (It did take me about four months to write this one, and I have written 28 pages, a considerable quantity of which was subsequently discarded, on "An Outsider and a Foreigner". But I don't have very much finished work to show. Perhaps I should have taken the Sunset Boulevard idea further.)( Read more... )

Finished uploading the full drabble-fic. It really needs a better summary, since this one isn't going to draw in anyone save those who read all new uploaded POTO stories (probably most of the surviving readers in that fandom, I suspect; posting levels seem to gave gone down in the last couple of years) or those who are prepared to read anything with my name on it...

Part of the problem was that the opening chapter was designed to be deliberately ambiguous (which creates naming problems further on!) and therefore when uploading the initial section I didn't want to give too much away. But you have to give people some reason to read.

Coming back

A life in vignettes.

She grew up in a little town in Sweden a long way from the sea, and there was never any thought in her mind that she might leave. And for all her love of music, how could she guess that it would weave through every sorrow and joy in the long years to come?

Yet it would take her far from the steep wooden houses and streets of her birth, through the great cities of Europe and even out to Brittany's desolate shores. And in the end, memories and love would bring her back to the simpler music of home.

~o~

Due to time constraints (I only started this about three days before the deadline!) I ended up uploading the drabbles in four chunks, which certainly produced some interesting traffic stats. With hindsight I suspect it would have been better to upload each fresh set as a single chapter -- especially as they have no identifying titles -- since fanfiction.net doesn't allow the reader to jump to the last unread chapter but only to the latest. And again, the reason why I didn't was that I wanted that first chapter to stand on its own with no 'giveaways' that it wasn't Christine...

I think I've got the timing problem with Plot Point Fifteen more or less sorted out by having Christine dealing with the wounded man (since Stefan is now actually injured by the Punjab cord, instead of its being a near miss) while Raoul has his initial talk with Erik. She can hear what is going on but Erik, having collapsed after the expenditure of strength in that final reflex attack, isn't aware of her presence. If Erik ends up dangling over the edge of the bed, that provides a motive for Raoul to take hold of his legs at some point...

Still worried about this scene. I need to get on to the dialogue, I need to do it well, and it has to be plausible. I'm not all that happy with the 'travelling' chapters (unsurprisingly), but I can get away with a slight sag there if there's a blistering finale.