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Richard Sharpe - He's a Rogue, But He's Our Rogue

Aug 16, 2009 10:58

Title: Richard Sharpe - He's a Rogue, But He's Our Rogue
Author: the_stowaway
Character: Richard Sharpe
Fandom: Sharpe (movie version)
Spoilers: for the entire series
Beta: many thanks to jenna_thorn
Author's Note: For those not familiar with canon, Sharpe is a series of British made-for-TV movies1, based on the novels of Bernard Cornwell, depicting the adventures of ( Read more... )

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fallingtowers August 18 2009, 15:55:39 UTC

That's an excellent, thorough essay! Thanks for making the effort to put it all together for us.

the_stowaway August 18 2009, 17:33:22 UTC

It was no great hardship to re-watch all 15 Sharpes as research for this essay. ;) I had a great time.

I'm so glad you enjoyed the result. Thank you!

(Have you found what you needed to feed your plotbunny, btw? I'm no help, having read only one of the books, but I'm interested to see what comes of your idea. *g*)

fallingtowers August 18 2009, 20:12:45 UTC

It was no great hardship to re-watch all 15 Sharpes as research...

Heh! :DDD

Oh, the folks at look_sharpe were incredibly helpful. If I ever manage to tackle that bunny, I shall have to thank them again. (Big fat 'if', though -- I often put my notes and drafts away for months in a row when writer's block hits...)

the_stowaway August 18 2009, 20:46:23 UTC

YAY for good info! And omg I hear you about writer's block. The number of bunnies I have languishing - files of notes, partially completed drafts, even the ones that are just items on a list - is truly mind-boggling. Thank goodness hard drive space is cheap. ;) That way I can keep them around until I can actually *do* something with them.

govi20 August 29 2009, 05:30:33 UTC

I am sorry for reading and commenting this late, because of RL stuff. I really love and compliment you with the essay; you did an excellent job. I run a Sean Bean website : The Mighty Bean, on which I have a large Sharpe section: here I would love to have your essay on it, with full credits of course. of you'd allow me.

the_stowaway August 29 2009, 15:42:35 UTC

Why, thank you! I so glad that you like it, and flattered at your request. You are welcome to put the essay on your site, with attribution. If you would be so kind, please also include a link to this post so that your readers can come to this community if they wish to. And please let me know when it goes up.

Thanks again!

govi20 August 29 2009, 17:25:47 UTC

I will and will let you know when I've put it up! Thank you, it's very kind of you.

govi20 August 30 2009, 11:12:04 UTC

Hi there! I've added your essay to the site; see the clickable link here If anything is amiss please let me know! Thanks again.

the_stowaway August 30 2009, 15:01:20 UTC

It looks great!

One tiny tweak I might suggest is to mention in your intro that the essay deals only with the movies and not with the books, to avoid confusion, since the movies differ fairly significantly from the book!verse in places.

And I see that the formatting went a little screwy here and there - probably because I used MS Word to create the original document. Sometimes where I have a dash (-) your page shows â€“, but that's a pretty minor thing. And I'm sure the Word formatting for the footnotes really gave you fits, in which case it's a good call to leave them out. People can always find them here, if they are curious. *g*

Other than that it looks good. Thanks again!

govi20 August 30 2009, 16:09:33 UTC

Will mention the movieverse and will try to get the weird puntuation out!

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