Day 1 (Team July)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

New month, new pico! Here is the post to update with any extracts, thoughts, or comments you might have for today.

Let's the fires burning!

Comments

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Edited the first draft of my npt assigned story and wrote ~480 words more on the Firiel story - it would have been more, but I got very stuck as I wanted to write the Council meeting and none of the viewpoint characters would be there and it took me ages to decide what to do... and then the new viewpoint character didn't want their bit to just consist of the Council meeting :S

Artamir (Firiel's oldest brother) and Pelendur (steward of Gondor) discuss the coming Council meeting
"Hiding from your father again?"
"You know me too well," Artamir replied with a smile. "Do you know the subject of the council meeting today?"
"I expect it is regarding whatever tiding the messengers from to north brought."
"I had forgotten their arrival. There was a letter, my parents read it last night, then sent us away to discuss it privately - Mother looked fairly stricken."
"At a guess, I would say that it likely contained an offer of marriage for your sister, as that would entail her travelling north and so your mother would fear for her happiness."
"That certainly sounds possible, and certainly explains why Father would not tell me in advance. Poor Firiel - although I suppose it would be inevitable that he would arrange her marriage."
"Indeed, but maybe she would be happy there - after all she feels constrained by her role here."
"I doubt it - she will resent not having a choice, but I suppose she might be happy in time; although I will miss her if she is sent away. I would have thought that she is too young to marry yet - it would be quite a scandal."
"I expect that it would just be a start to negotiations with the marriage date set well into the future."
"I wonder when he intends to tell Firiel - after all it can hardly be a secret, if the whole Council is to know."
"Come on, we should go in - no need to antagonise your father further by being late."

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

Characters! They never do as they're told!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Exactly... but mostly in the end it seem to improve the stories (although leads to far too many minor characters getting their moments in my stories)

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Artamir is matter of fact about the bartering of his sister, but then again I suppose he can afford to be. Unjust, but there it is. Nicely written.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Hmm - he isn't supposed to be too matter of the fact about it, but it isn't too unexpected or the worst the news could be from his pov... *thinks about that for tomorrow*
Thank you!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

The best bits are often when the characters insist on taking over.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

*nods* very true :)

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Lots of progress on different fronts!

Must be distressing to have one's personal affairs be a matter of state, even if one were expecting it.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Very true!

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

The relationship between Artamir and the Steward is interesting here - they seem to talk fairly freely. I wonder what the king would think about this conversation.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm not sure that I can answer that succinctly - many different things depending on which aspect of the conversation he chose to focus on...

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

More intrigue?

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Well, it usually takes up a large proportion of my stories.. :)