Less Mirabilis
Dec. 30th, 2012 02:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wytchcroft“That,” said the Magician, “is Mary Carty. Be warned, she may lark upon the stair but she is no Cosette, you may be certain. Alone in this vast metropolis, the girl is responsible for half that is mischievous and almost all that goes unpunished.
Eh, Magpie?" Deigning finally to address the child herself. "We have a visitor tonight as you can see.”
“I should bleedin’ cocoa," the girl scoffed.
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well it doesn't take much sometimes to motivate me - when i want to be motivated i guess, ha-ha*.
anyway and note to self etc. i have found the draft notes for the final chapter of Spirit Among the Magicians. Yes, the chapter that (not unlike the titular character) disappeared accidentally into the electronic aether from which it cannot return.
No great loss, i realise, but a couple of things spur me on to recreate it...
one - a pun as broad as the Moriarty joke above (from pt 2) shouldn't be left to starve in some unfinished piece of blabber. Meantime Les Misérables has just been made into a film (i gather) so punning on the original character of Cosette probably has a limited window now before it's assumed to be a film reference. le sigh.
two - realising that Rosemary Lane and Spirit Among have many close connections. In fact Lawrence could easily be The Great Fabrizi in earlier daze.
BUT Lane turned out to be really very dark and it's about time i did something light.
Rosemary is a sort of tragic non-character but i see Mary Carty more as General Jinjur from Oz and nothing tragic in that whatsoever. A far spikier character.
jinjur
cosette
well, i guess we'll see.
the hardest thing with Spirit is that it's (deliberately) all talk, melodrama and stagy.
giving the thing a clear narrative and with a decent climax is difficult - and so is avoiding repetition.
giving the thing a clear narrative and with a decent climax is difficult - and so is avoiding repetition.
giving the thing a clear narra- *slap!*
see? see?!
oh well, anyhow Lane still needs a final draft... *makes a long arm for the Bradshaw...*
*clearly trying to motivate self.
Eh, Magpie?" Deigning finally to address the child herself. "We have a visitor tonight as you can see.”
“I should bleedin’ cocoa," the girl scoffed.
............................................
well it doesn't take much sometimes to motivate me - when i want to be motivated i guess, ha-ha*.
anyway and note to self etc. i have found the draft notes for the final chapter of Spirit Among the Magicians. Yes, the chapter that (not unlike the titular character) disappeared accidentally into the electronic aether from which it cannot return.
No great loss, i realise, but a couple of things spur me on to recreate it...
one - a pun as broad as the Moriarty joke above (from pt 2) shouldn't be left to starve in some unfinished piece of blabber. Meantime Les Misérables has just been made into a film (i gather) so punning on the original character of Cosette probably has a limited window now before it's assumed to be a film reference. le sigh.
two - realising that Rosemary Lane and Spirit Among have many close connections. In fact Lawrence could easily be The Great Fabrizi in earlier daze.
BUT Lane turned out to be really very dark and it's about time i did something light.
Rosemary is a sort of tragic non-character but i see Mary Carty more as General Jinjur from Oz and nothing tragic in that whatsoever. A far spikier character.
jinjur
cosette
well, i guess we'll see.
the hardest thing with Spirit is that it's (deliberately) all talk, melodrama and stagy.
giving the thing a clear narrative and with a decent climax is difficult - and so is avoiding repetition.
giving the thing a clear narrative and with a decent climax is difficult - and so is avoiding repetition.
giving the thing a clear narra- *slap!*
see? see?!
oh well, anyhow Lane still needs a final draft... *makes a long arm for the Bradshaw...*
*clearly trying to motivate self.
