Recent reading and writing
May. 25th, 2020 12:57 amI can't sleep, probably because I slept late today, so why not make a post...
I am DONE with part two of what I call my Flight of the Heron monster AU! It now clocks in at 36,000 words, and the story is far from done. It's kind of crazy: I have written 89,000 words already this year. I know words written =/= words posted, but still, going by my AO3 stats, my most productive year so far has been 2010, when I posted 77,000 words. I've already written more than that this year, and it's only May! Who knew.
Bonnie Dundee by Rosemary Sutcliff (1985)
Oh, I'd forgotten how much I love Sutcliff's writing. *happy sigh* Thanks to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
regshoe for alerting me that she'd written something set in the time period which I am currently fannish about. The central foursome of characters consists of Hugh, who is loyal to John Graham of Claverhouse (= Dundee), and Darklis, who is loyal to Claverhouse's wife Lady Jean. It's obvious from the start that Hugh and Darklis are going to end up together, but for almost the whole book, the loyalty in the m-m and f-f relationships is clearly much more important, though we see much less of the f-f one on page. And of course Sutcliff does that kind of thing very well. I enjoyed it a lot, but was a bit upset by the ending, in which ( spoilers )
Of course, it's a bit jarring to read non-fiction alongside something like this. Says one of my history books about the object of Hugh's hero worship: [Claverhouse] was primarily a very unimaginative soldier for whom the arrival of an order from a superior terminated all speculative thought, if indeed he ever indulged in such. Heh.
I am DONE with part two of what I call my Flight of the Heron monster AU! It now clocks in at 36,000 words, and the story is far from done. It's kind of crazy: I have written 89,000 words already this year. I know words written =/= words posted, but still, going by my AO3 stats, my most productive year so far has been 2010, when I posted 77,000 words. I've already written more than that this year, and it's only May! Who knew.
Bonnie Dundee by Rosemary Sutcliff (1985)
Oh, I'd forgotten how much I love Sutcliff's writing. *happy sigh* Thanks to
regshoe for alerting me that she'd written something set in the time period which I am currently fannish about. The central foursome of characters consists of Hugh, who is loyal to John Graham of Claverhouse (= Dundee), and Darklis, who is loyal to Claverhouse's wife Lady Jean. It's obvious from the start that Hugh and Darklis are going to end up together, but for almost the whole book, the loyalty in the m-m and f-f relationships is clearly much more important, though we see much less of the f-f one on page. And of course Sutcliff does that kind of thing very well. I enjoyed it a lot, but was a bit upset by the ending, in which ( spoilers ) Of course, it's a bit jarring to read non-fiction alongside something like this. Says one of my history books about the object of Hugh's hero worship: [Claverhouse] was primarily a very unimaginative soldier for whom the arrival of an order from a superior terminated all speculative thought, if indeed he ever indulged in such. Heh.
