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bedlamsbardYou know, I didn't think I could actually make Dust more epic, and then I thought about it.
Let's just say I should probably not be reading about the Greco-Persian Wars while trying to plot out this story. Hey, at least I'm not ending the world! That was, like, anticlimatic epic. This is really more along the lines of "battle for Gondor" epic, if I can pull it off. And not like Lass's and my Narnia/Stardust crossover, either: not a war amidst gods, but a war amidst men, and the great and terrible beauty of it.
I mean, I kind of desperately want my reference novels, which I don't have here. (Well, okay, I own two of three, and one is here and one is home and the other one is the bridge part of the trilogy.) And I also have to start building up Archenland and Black Fleet diplomacy now, as well as the whole sordid history of the Calormen Empire and some more Narnian history ("yeah, like this will be hard for you," don't think I don't hear y'all snickering at me), and because I have to split everybody up in order to pull it off, it's going to make structure a bitch. (Sorry, Tirian, looks like you won't have half as many POVs as I thought you were when this was going to be a quick and dirty CONQUER NARNIA, DIE CALORMENE SCUM, but at this point we may even have a chance of keeping Narnia Narnian for more than a generation.) But let's just hope the Pevensies can brush up on their diplomatic skills very quickly. (I think Peter gets the easy way out; he gets to practice diplomacy by beating in heads, his very favorite kind. He ain't the one who has to convince, a, enemies of Narnia, b, allies of Narnia, c, Narnians, d, terrified Calormene "allies", or, e, Calormenes, that the revolution is upon them.)
On the other hand, there's Water, and that can't develop this kind of intricate plot; that's hack and bash PC with Peta and just a shade more intricacy and a lot more sex, if I can keep it from bogging down with too much unnecessary inbetween detail. (That is part one, I think goes without saying; part two is Peter and Peta in Burma and England and part three is Warsverse Pevensies and Peta in Petaverse Narnia. I'm only aiming at part one right now, because that one stands on its own.)
And then there's the Narnia/Merlin crossover, which is not allowed to develop an action plot, and the Narnia/Stardust crossover, which is epic on the "GODS THROW DOWN" scale.
Look, if y'all thought my brain ever shut off, you were sadly, sadly mistaken.
Let's just say I should probably not be reading about the Greco-Persian Wars while trying to plot out this story. Hey, at least I'm not ending the world! That was, like, anticlimatic epic. This is really more along the lines of "battle for Gondor" epic, if I can pull it off. And not like Lass's and my Narnia/Stardust crossover, either: not a war amidst gods, but a war amidst men, and the great and terrible beauty of it.
I mean, I kind of desperately want my reference novels, which I don't have here. (Well, okay, I own two of three, and one is here and one is home and the other one is the bridge part of the trilogy.) And I also have to start building up Archenland and Black Fleet diplomacy now, as well as the whole sordid history of the Calormen Empire and some more Narnian history ("yeah, like this will be hard for you," don't think I don't hear y'all snickering at me), and because I have to split everybody up in order to pull it off, it's going to make structure a bitch. (Sorry, Tirian, looks like you won't have half as many POVs as I thought you were when this was going to be a quick and dirty CONQUER NARNIA, DIE CALORMENE SCUM, but at this point we may even have a chance of keeping Narnia Narnian for more than a generation.) But let's just hope the Pevensies can brush up on their diplomatic skills very quickly. (I think Peter gets the easy way out; he gets to practice diplomacy by beating in heads, his very favorite kind. He ain't the one who has to convince, a, enemies of Narnia, b, allies of Narnia, c, Narnians, d, terrified Calormene "allies", or, e, Calormenes, that the revolution is upon them.)
On the other hand, there's Water, and that can't develop this kind of intricate plot; that's hack and bash PC with Peta and just a shade more intricacy and a lot more sex, if I can keep it from bogging down with too much unnecessary inbetween detail. (That is part one, I think goes without saying; part two is Peter and Peta in Burma and England and part three is Warsverse Pevensies and Peta in Petaverse Narnia. I'm only aiming at part one right now, because that one stands on its own.)
And then there's the Narnia/Merlin crossover, which is not allowed to develop an action plot, and the Narnia/Stardust crossover, which is epic on the "GODS THROW DOWN" scale.
Look, if y'all thought my brain ever shut off, you were sadly, sadly mistaken.
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Date: 2008-11-07 02:07 am (UTC)Edmund POV is quite entertaining; I suggest you do that again (and maybe some Susan) for the diplomacy stuff :D
LOL, Greco-Persian wars....
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Date: 2008-11-07 02:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-07 11:16 am (UTC)...isn't it?
omg our narnia/stardust and how large it is. :-O!
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Date: 2008-11-07 01:55 pm (UTC)Oh, man, I want the Narnia/Stardust like burning. Because I need to hit all points of epic AT ONCE.
OH IT IS THE PEVENSIES IN LEGEND (http://www.elyrics.net/read/a/a-fine-frenzy-lyrics/lifesize-lyrics.html). *beams*