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I swear to God, this is the chapter that hates life, the universe, and ME. It is like the little chapter that would not be written!

Too. Much. Freaking. EXPOSITION. No, Tirian, we do not need to know Narnian history dating back three hundred years (about 4K of it, oh my god, there's, like, 700 words that's not Death by Exposition).

*stares at chapter* Maybe rather than rewriting the entirety of the chapter -- oh, gods, version four -- I can figure out what in the exposition doesn't have to be there and then throw in the Peter/Tirian swordfight I wanted.

I'm serious about the exposition, by the way: we have Rilian's Ban, the Calormene invasion during Absalian's time, a Tirian flashback, Bahadur of Calormen, and an exacting survey of exactly who and what is living out in the west. Maybe it's not that bad. I don't even know. I have no distance from this chapter anymore.

ETA: Hey, kids, you know what's exciting? When your references for "ultimate fantasy adventure novel" is two thousand miles away. Maybe the bookstore has a copy in paperback; I'll check after class.

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Oh, AWESOME. Looking back at LB to check such trivial details as how Jewel addresses Tirian, I find just how much stuff I've written (a.k.a. DEATH BY EXPOSITION) is contradicted by, you know, the actual text.

I, uh. I really like the backstory I came up with. *stares at ceiling* Perhaps Lantern Waste's location has changed in sixteen hundred years. (Also a wrong date, but hey, this one's understandable: he says two hundred years since Rilian died, so it could probably be three hundred years since PC, if Caspian reigned for ages and ages and Rilian ruled for an age and a half or so.)

(Tirian's eyes, apparently? BLUE. Not green, then. Although, heh, movieverse, which contradicts bookverse in about a million different ways.)

(Also, Tirian in the books? Even more of an idiot than Tirian in Dust. And I'm working damn hard to make Tirian actually competent, and no wonder.)

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THE LITTLE CHAPTER THAT WOULD NOT BE WRITTEN IS DONE. Now I have to go through and cut the crazy, crazy amounts of exposition.

Also, apparently there is a lot of Peter/Tirian subtext, and Tirian may or may not have a crush on the High King. BUT WHO WOULDN'T?

Narnia fic: "Dust in the Air" (3)

Title: Dust in the Air 3
Author: bedlamsbard
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia movieverse/bookverse
Rating: PG-13
Summary: And the end of all our exploring / will be to arrive where we started. An AU of The Last Battle, some five years after that book begins.
Disclaimer: The Chronicles of Narnia and its characters, situations, settings, etc., belong to C.S. Lewis. Certain characters, situations, settings, etc., belong to Walden Media. Title and quote from T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets: Little Gidding.
Author's Notes: This is part three, obviously, and this is also the first WIP I've posted since 2006. (And that WIP was abandoned, so one can see I'm understandably nervous about posting another one.) The structure of this lends it to being posted in sections, though, so that's how it's going up. Because of this, however, it's not getting posted to any comms until the whole thing is done. Thanks to lassiterfics for the beta.

( Dust in the Air 3 )

Part One 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17
Part Two 00 | 000 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | Interlude | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31