Blame Be_The_Moon -- Egotistical Meme

[rthstewart]

So my whining in the previous post generated a Harold and Morgan Plot The Narnia Census comment fic courtesy of autumnia  keeperofqkeys and min023 I burned the dinner but it was fun.  On the plus side, thanks for the lovely comments.  I'm at 7,337 words, of which I'll probably use most of it, and I'm not half done, so that means probably another two parter.  The problem is

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[rthstewart]

Swordplay is always really hard to write. The two duels in PC are really among the best in literature, apparently, Trumpkin and Edmund and then Peter and Miraz. They are very skillfully constructed and it's difficult to write something even remotely comparable. Moreover, I'd already done the one between Edmund and Leszi, and sort of used up a lot of my tricks. So, I cheated by using Mary as the point of view character. She doesn't understand what she is seeing and her knowledge is far less informed. It's a bit like those of us sitting in a theater and watching the sword fighting in LOTR or POTC -- ohhh, pretty! But we could never dissect it in a meaningful way. But, I knew this was a scene that readers really wanted and had waited very patiently for, so it was worth the time it took to finally get it down.

As for Mrs. Pevensie (who may or may not be named Helen), she knows more than her children realize. She had several long, long chats with Digory Kirke about just what happened during their stay at his country home. He never mentioned Narnia, of course, but she knows something happened and that her children came back different even than evacuation could account for.

[autumnia]

I most definitely agree that writing a battle is terribly difficult to do. I marvel at how well others have written them because I can never figure out the details I would need in order to make a scene plausible. For now, I just save a small text file with random snippets of action that I've come across either in fanfic, published works or things I see in film or tv in hopes of helping to write a battle when the time comes.

As for Mrs. Pevensie, I could see her as "Helen" though it's a bit annoying that the film chose to use it when there's already a Helen in the books. It would have been nice to have used another era-appropriate name.