Comments | sarlania: Hornblower Fic: L is for Letters

sarlania

Hornblower Fic: L is for Letters

Jan 22, 2010 22:34

TITLE: Letters
RATING: G, General
WORD COUNT: 2350
SPOILERS: The entire CS Foresterverse.
DISCLAIMER: All characters belong to CS Forester. I only play with it.
NOTES: Written for lokei's Hornblower Alphabet Soup Challenge. Thanks to my very wonderful beta reader sharpiefan. Any mistakes are my own. This fic is in pdf form; if you can't read the handwriting, ( Read more... )

fanfic, fanfic: hornblower

Comments 10

esmerelda_t January 22 2010, 22:16:45 UTC

ack, I can't download the pdf without signing up to the provider...

I look forward to the typed version, although it's a shame cause doing letters in this format is a great idea.

anteros_lmc January 22 2010, 22:22:05 UTC

My goodness! This is a labour of love and a work of art!

sarlania February 1 2010, 11:45:04 UTC

Thank you! =) I wanted to do something different for a change, rather than just a straight fic. I was reading some of Wellington's dispatches online and got the idea to do this.

sarlania January 22 2010, 22:45:05 UTC

I've added a new link. Try it now. =)

elmey January 23 2010, 06:33:19 UTC

You know I don't know Hornblower that well, but this is absolutely lovely work. The letters themselves give a real sense of a life, and the way they're presented is just beautiful, meticulous craftsmanship. You've created something special.

sarlania February 1 2010, 11:45:56 UTC

Thanks, that's very kind of you to say so. I'm very proud of it myself.

mylodon January 24 2010, 17:28:56 UTC

I love these. They say so much without being OTT (like the style to Bush compared to the style to Barbara).

I like the one to Maria being full of capital letters, like so much correspondence of the time seemed to be.

Bingo!

sarlania February 1 2010, 11:47:33 UTC

Hehehe thanks! I'd thought to do all of Hornblower's letters with the capital letters inserted every few words, but for some reason I imagined he wouldn't really bother with all that. =)

esmerelda_t January 25 2010, 11:29:17 UTC

'A labour of love' is the thought that sprang to my mind too.

I've been able to view the pdf's, I'd be interested to read a commentary on how you went about this, it really is a fantastic idea.

Sadly my eyesight seems to be going the way of Hornblower's and I couldn't read much of the actual content so I will still look forward to the typed version. :)

ETA: Proving my point about me being as blind as a bat, I see the typed ones are up! *goes off to read*

sarlania February 1 2010, 11:49:06 UTC

Thanks! I do realise the font I used would be difficult to read. I myself had troubles reading it when proofreading the text.

Hope you enjoyed the typed version (which I should've put up earlier)