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Writing, and a few other bits and pieces
May. 4th, 2024 09:05 amI have kept up my writing, more or less. My current WIP is a Kidnapped f/f genderswap AU, and is currently 32 notebook pages long, so somewhere around 16,000 words, and getting near the end of the draft—just a few loose ends to clear up now. It's definitely a wobbly first draft, but I'm pleased with it on the whole. (It was a good idea! I keep saying I want f/f with the dynamics of my favourite m/m pairings, and, well, this is one way to get it, and it is indeed pretty great.)
I've been re-reading the book, keeping pace with myself as I wrote the AU and also collecting material to make a timeline. I've just finished the re-read and the provisional result for the timeline is: Robert Louis Stevenson definitely could not count. There are five exact calendar dates in this book; would you like to guess how many of them don't contradict either each other or other information we're given about the timeline?One! 27th June 1751, the date of the shipwreck. ETA: I spoke too soon! I've now started putting the timeline together; this date doesn't definitely contradict anything else, but there are approximate details that are difficult to reconcile with it. More to follow... Between this, the David's age thing and the certainly deliberate wrong historical year, I'm beginning to think he did it all on purpose.
I've also finished a short Jill fic, a crossover with E. W. Hornung's Peccavi, but it came out kind of weird, I decided to put it on one side for a while and since then have been distracted by the Kidnapped fic. Perhaps I'll go back to it in between drafts.
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raremaleslashex nominations will be opening in a few weeks. I've been contemplating making a tentative step back into exchanges, and I think this would be an especially good one right now. Anyone else in my fandoms thinking of signing up? (I was thinking Kidnapped book and play, Armadale, The Red House Mystery, Raffles—goodness, Raffles/Bunny is almost ineligible; a good opportunity for Raffles/Mackenzie or other rarepairs—perhaps other Jacobite stuff...)
Isobel McArthur's Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of)—her most successful work to date, and a major precursor to Kidnapped—is touring locations in England this autumn. I'll see how I feel closer to the time, I think, but it's a cool opportunity!
I've been re-reading the book, keeping pace with myself as I wrote the AU and also collecting material to make a timeline. I've just finished the re-read and the provisional result for the timeline is: Robert Louis Stevenson definitely could not count. There are five exact calendar dates in this book; would you like to guess how many of them don't contradict either each other or other information we're given about the timeline?
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I've also finished a short Jill fic, a crossover with E. W. Hornung's Peccavi, but it came out kind of weird, I decided to put it on one side for a while and since then have been distracted by the Kidnapped fic. Perhaps I'll go back to it in between drafts.
If it runs on a similar schedule to last year,
raremaleslashex nominations will be opening in a few weeks. I've been contemplating making a tentative step back into exchanges, and I think this would be an especially good one right now. Anyone else in my fandoms thinking of signing up? (I was thinking Kidnapped book and play, Armadale, The Red House Mystery, Raffles—goodness, Raffles/Bunny is almost ineligible; a good opportunity for Raffles/Mackenzie or other rarepairs—perhaps other Jacobite stuff...)Isobel McArthur's Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of)—her most successful work to date, and a major precursor to Kidnapped—is touring locations in England this autumn. I'll see how I feel closer to the time, I think, but it's a cool opportunity!
