Ah, NOT Elanor! That much be some fics by other people; I know I have heard of it as an explanation of Elanor's Elvishness more than once.
I haven't time to read a long story, is the problem, White Gull. I am terribly behind in my writing. Or do you mean that I needn't read all of Autumn's Gift but only need to read the story you mentioned in The Harem?
P.S. Important: since these last posts constitute spoilers for your story, should I delete them from this LJ entry? Or shall I leave them as a form of advertising? *grin*
P.P.S. On my "despondent over my writing" comment.
I have been pausing in my work (for two months, already - that's a BIG pause!) to revise Chs. 1 -7. (I wrote those in one block a year ago, later dividing them into chapters.) Anyway, after posting Ch. 12 in August, I decided I had so many details piling up, I really needed to go back and make chapter summaries so I could keep track of them. But, when I did, I found that I was not happy with the level of my writing in those early chapters. I didn't feel I could go forward, in fact, without improving them. Not just the writing seemed substandard to me, but some of the nuances of character no longer synched with how the characters had developed in the later chapters.
Anyway, it's taken forever and has made me worry that I will continue to feel disappointed with the story in this way. Being thrilled with it at first, but then looking back a year later and thinking, "I really am not happy with the quality," and wanting to fiddle with it all over again. I am not sorry I did this, for the story is really better, but it's very daunting and piles on extra worry that it is all taking so long, I'll be my only reader by the time I finish!
I haven't time to read a long story, is the problem, White Gull. I am terribly behind in my writing. Or do you mean that I needn't read all of Autumn's Gift but only need to read the story you mentioned in The Harem?
P.S. Important: since these last posts constitute spoilers for your story, should I delete them from this LJ entry? Or shall I leave them as a form of advertising? *grin*
P.P.S. On my "despondent over my writing" comment.
I have been pausing in my work (for two months, already - that's a BIG pause!) to revise Chs. 1 -7. (I wrote those in one block a year ago, later dividing them into chapters.) Anyway, after posting Ch. 12 in August, I decided I had so many details piling up, I really needed to go back and make chapter summaries so I could keep track of them. But, when I did, I found that I was not happy with the level of my writing in those early chapters. I didn't feel I could go forward, in fact, without improving them. Not just the writing seemed substandard to me, but some of the nuances of character no longer synched with how the characters had developed in the later chapters.
Anyway, it's taken forever and has made me worry that I will continue to feel disappointed with the story in this way. Being thrilled with it at first, but then looking back a year later and thinking, "I really am not happy with the quality," and wanting to fiddle with it all over again. I am not sorry I did this, for the story is really better, but it's very daunting and piles on extra worry that it is all taking so long, I'll be my only reader by the time I finish!
~ Mechtild
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