Fic: 'The Sun of the Mind' (Flight of the Heron, White Cockades)

[regshoe]

I've been working on this for a while, and here it is at long last—the Flight of the Heron/White Cockades crossover! This was brilliant fun to write—I do like these slashy Jacobite adventure novels very much—and the crossover plot ended up making for a very interesting situation to put the characters in.

The Sun of the Mind (19945 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster, White Cockades - Edward Prime-Stevenson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham, Andrew Boyd/Lord Geoffry Armitage
Characters: Ewen Cameron, Keith Windham, Andrew Boyd, Lord Geoffry Armitage, Colonel Danforth, Hugh Chisholm
Additional Tags: Adventure, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Crossover, Character Death Fix
Summary:

After his escape at High Bridge, Ewen is recaptured by a redcoat named Captain Jermain. Meanwhile Keith is sent on a mission to capture Charles Edward Stuart, and finds himself in the neighbourhood of Windlestrae Manor... but neither Keith nor Ewen can guess what meetings and choices will result.

This fic does not require familiarity with White Cockades to understand, but does contain spoilers for it.

This is my longest fic to date (the third story this year to be so—I'm developing), and I am annoyed by that wordcount! I considered adding an extra 55 words somewhere, but decided doing so deliberately wouldn't be playing fair. Perhaps next time... ;D

Comments

[edwardianspinsteraunt]

Woo, congrats! :D

[regshoe]

Thank you :D

[garonne]

Ooh, I love the mere idea of this fic! Can't wait to read it.

[regshoe]

:D Thank you, I hope you enjoy it!

[ysilme]

Yay, congrats! *\O/*
I can totally relate to that word count feeling! ♥ About ten years ago I was firmly convinced that my limit for a story was about 5k, and only if the inspiration, pairing, writing time and moon phases were right or whatnot. Then various things happened, a combination of new fandom, different motivation, new people and new challenges and so on, and a year later I was doing and winning a full-scale NaNo and have evey year since, and more. But I never stopped being proud about any new writing benmark reached, word-count-wise or other, and I find it super cool that "writing" really works like training other muscle groups, in a way. *g* Go you for the next one, which likely will easily cross that threshold!

[regshoe]

Thank you! And wow, that's a very impressive improvement. My limit was consistently about 12k until the beginning of this year, when I reduced the amount of outlining I do before starting to write—that seems to have made writing longer stories bit by bit easier. You're quite right about exercise and writing benchmarks—definitely worth celebrating :D

[friendofthejabberwock]

Oooh, this sounds great! And congratulations! <3

[regshoe]

Thank you, and I hope you like it :D