![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trying to get two monks to kiss
Nov. 29th, 2019 01:14 pmToday I passed 10,000 words on my WIP, so I feel safe(ish) in mentioning that it exists. Cadfael TV fandom, all about Brother Jerome and Prior Robert and how they got that way. I keep needing to research 12th century theology, monastic practice, etc. etc., although I could write any damn half-recalled or entirely made up thing and still not be less historically accurate than the show.
I'll need a beta reader for this beast eventually, if anyone feels like it. Warning for lots and lots and LOTS of Christianity: the search function tells me I've used the word "sin" 14 times already in this draft.
I am so glad to be writing something again. I'm even enjoying, more or less, the actual process of getting the words onto the page. I have no idea why this fandom or this character was the one to break through years of stuck-ness. Why an officious, sanctimonious, puritanical little monk instead of, say, a dashing serial killer and his ethically-challenged boyfriend, the protagonists of a show of vastly higher quality than Cadfael? (The answer probably has a lot to do with their being no fic about Jerome and Robert vs. reams of it about Hannibal and Will, but still. I do sometimes find myself puzzled by the things and characters that appeal to me.)
I'll need a beta reader for this beast eventually, if anyone feels like it. Warning for lots and lots and LOTS of Christianity: the search function tells me I've used the word "sin" 14 times already in this draft.
I am so glad to be writing something again. I'm even enjoying, more or less, the actual process of getting the words onto the page. I have no idea why this fandom or this character was the one to break through years of stuck-ness. Why an officious, sanctimonious, puritanical little monk instead of, say, a dashing serial killer and his ethically-challenged boyfriend, the protagonists of a show of vastly higher quality than Cadfael? (The answer probably has a lot to do with their being no fic about Jerome and Robert vs. reams of it about Hannibal and Will, but still. I do sometimes find myself puzzled by the things and characters that appeal to me.)
