and the madness continues...

*blink* Wait, schools were dismissed because of the possibility of snow? Clearly I grew up in the wrong state, dudes, because my junior year every other school in Washington was either delayed or cancelled because there was snow up to our necks and Ellensburg was pretty much, "NO WE SHALL PERSEVERE. BRING ON THE PAIN! WE MAY NOT HAVE POWER, BUT WE WILL HAVE SCHOOL." *cough* To be fair, the power had gone out in the other power company, not the one that had the school district. So only about half the students had no power.

(I am not kidding, though. They closed the friggin' highway; there were students who lived in other towns that couldn't make it to Ellensburg for school; there were schools that missed upwards of a week of classes, but did Ellensburg cancel? NO. Did Ellensburg delay? NO. Did I still have my 7 am zero hour class? YES. And last year one of my friends got stuck on the other side of the mountains for a week when they closed the pass; that kind of sucked for him.)

The one and only time I remember actually having school cancelled was my freshman year, on a Tuesday after a three-day weekend; it wasn't because of snow, it was because the roads were too icy for the school buses to run. And we still had pep band that evening; there was a basketball game.

OH DEEP SOUTH WHY SO CRAZY?

(Did y'all hear about the furniture store in Amite whose roof collapsed under eight inches of snow, though? Madness! And, uh, bad?)

ETA: Snow at Tulane! When it was snowing, I was...uh, asleep.

*squints*

Some I'm going through my draft of "Till Human Voices Wake Us", because I'd really like to finish it before the year ends and I haven't looked at it in an age (mostly because it has serious structural problems, god, shoot me), and just cosmetically, aside from one weird tense shift somewhere in the middle, the biggest (cosmetic, let me make this extremely clear, because there are a million problems with this) problem is whether Peter is in armor or leathers.

If I remember correctly, I'd just begun to change it from armor to leathers the last time I looked at this, and now I think I want him in armor. Except now I have to make sure the various parts of his armor line up. *sigh* I think he's not actually in full armor like he is in LWW or PC; I think he's more likely wearing something similar to what Edmund is wearing in PC. Except with a little more filigree, of course.

Look, he's marching around in a cave for god knows how many miles; he's not going to wear full armor. But he also doesn't know what he's fighting; he's not going to trust himself to leathers.

What else do I have to do? Take out one of the subplots I'd started writing in; this doesn't need that particular subplot at this moment in time and it's extraneous and unnecessary. Figure out what the emotional plot is. Figure out how to work the other POVs in because right now the majority of what I have is Peter-in-the-caves, and I want Edmund-burning-out-the-caverns and whatever it is Susan and Lucy are doing. It's not that I have an opposition to a single POV, because, hello, have you met me? It's that it's an ensemble story.

(I also have this terrible fear that Peter-in-the-caves is what should be dropped and that I should write the story around the absence of Peter, and that not knowing is worse than knowing. But I really like the Peter POV! And you know how I am with writing action.)

The other major problem is the timeline. This feels like it should take place before "In a Dry Month." The only problem is that I don't see how it can, even putting aside the factor of there being characters alive in "In a Dry Month" that are killed off in Voices. (This is not the only issue, by the way.) There are issues with the Peter character growth between Month and Voices.

*scowls* WHY. WON'T. YOU. JUST. WORK. GODDAMNIT.

Narnia fic: "Dust in the Air" (7)

Title: Dust in the Air 7
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. Certain elements in this chapter inspired by Scott Lynch's novel The Lies of Locke Lamora.
Author's Notes: This is part seven, 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 beta and encouragement (and urban angst).

( Dust in the Air 7 )

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