Still on course for tomorrow's daily posting... just about...
But I found seven things this morning that needed changing in chapter 2 before I could post that to FFnet -- was it really only this morning? It feels a lifetime ago. But that's what you get for night after night of having to get up four or five hours after you finally got to bed :-( ( Read more... )

I've almost finished the final chapter of this -- enough to have a good idea of where it's going, anyway, and I think I can safely enter the first chapter for its contest without the likelihood of needing to make any further amendments. It's so short that it barely qualifies as a chapter, and the second scene isn't much better; but they don't ( Read more... )

Managed to work an acknowledgement of Philippe's fate into the last chapter of my Christmas challenge fan-fic (I really need to hurry up on that one; even if I posted the four chapters daily I wouldn't be able to get them out before the 25th! Fortunately only the first chapter is actually eligible for the challenge, and it's reasonably standalone ( Read more... )

Archived for my reference, so I don't have to go looking all this stuff up again...
Interestingly, 'tu' does get used in Leroux -- Christine and Raoul are both very well-brought-up, but they occasionally slip when yelling at/to each other: "tais-toi donc, Raoul!" "Eh bien, dis, maintenant!" "Christine, aie pitié! Je vais mourir dans la forêt... ( Read more... )

I've been holding off on getting round to editing and posting the final chapter because the page stats on fanfiction.net have been offline for the last week, and I rather like to have some idea of how many people are actually reading my work - it's a big disincentive - but of course there's no reason why I shouldn't post it here in the meantime ( Read more... )

I realised belatedly during the writing of this that I'd taken a certain amount of liberty in allowing Philippe to be present at Perros-Guirec and meet Christine as a child, when there's no sign in Leroux that he ever knew anything about Raoul's childhood friendship with the Daaés at all, let alone visited the village. But in a story told from ( Read more... )

The 'Philippe-story' turns out to fall quite nicely into three chapters split chronologically: one covering Raoul's birth and the death of their father, one covering Brest and Perros-Guirec, and one dealing with the remaining 'present-day' material.

So after a couple of last-minute panics and edits (including the realisation that I'd named one of ( Read more... )

Finished the story now provisionally known as "The Sons of Éléonore" yesterday (well, it sounds better than "Éléonore's Boys", which was the first tentative suggestion!)

Things to look at:

• I'm not sure about the end (I probably need to make it more clear what is actually happening, and try to avoid implying that Philippe associates Raoul with ( Read more... )

I've definitely started a new story now (several days' steady progress :-D ( Read more... )

Illustration by Greg Hildebrandt from Unicorn Press edition of "The Phantom of the Opera"
( Philippe handed his brother a copy of the Epoque and said 'Read that!' )