writing, blah blah blah
Oct. 24th, 2012 03:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingI finished the fourth section of "The Corners of the World" tonight, which leaves only one before the story is complete. :-) Of course, the final section is the trickiest, because I need to figure out how to deal with "Little Sister" -- I have to summarize and skim the events of that story somehow, to get Jadis into Narnia, but I'm not quite sure how to manage the compression. *sigh*
But anyway, North, East, South, and West are done! I stalled on West for a bit because it kept being weirdly short compared to the other three sections and yet there was no way to extend it; I'd reached the logical ending of the plot movement. What turned out to be missing was the text of the Deep Magic that Jadis discovers written on the World Ash Tree in the uttermost west. That text is never given directly in LWW -- it's always paraphrased, by both Jadis and Aslan -- but the bits we do hear have a vaguely King James Old Testament feel to them, so I went for something vaguely in that vein. And also connected it back to Charn, because why not! Jadis had to bring something into the Narnian world, to balance the way the humans brought English, so why not some of Charn's harsh laws?
I also want to revise the bit about building a magical tower -- I should link that to her stone wand, which I kind of forgot that she owns -- but that can wait for tomorrow.
(6,000 words now, give or take a hundred. Which is a terrible progress rate, considering I started writing this story in the summer of 2009, but whatever, I will conquer it in the end.)
But anyway, North, East, South, and West are done! I stalled on West for a bit because it kept being weirdly short compared to the other three sections and yet there was no way to extend it; I'd reached the logical ending of the plot movement. What turned out to be missing was the text of the Deep Magic that Jadis discovers written on the World Ash Tree in the uttermost west. That text is never given directly in LWW -- it's always paraphrased, by both Jadis and Aslan -- but the bits we do hear have a vaguely King James Old Testament feel to them, so I went for something vaguely in that vein. And also connected it back to Charn, because why not! Jadis had to bring something into the Narnian world, to balance the way the humans brought English, so why not some of Charn's harsh laws?
I also want to revise the bit about building a magical tower -- I should link that to her stone wand, which I kind of forgot that she owns -- but that can wait for tomorrow.
(6,000 words now, give or take a hundred. Which is a terrible progress rate, considering I started writing this story in the summer of 2009, but whatever, I will conquer it in the end.)
