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trying to get two monks to kiss
Today 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.)
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Congratulations! 10,000 words is not a small number!
I would cheerfully volunteer as a beta-reader, but mostly because I want to read the thing; if you want someone who can seriously evaluate the portrayal of twelfth-century Christianity, it is not my field of expertise.
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Fair warning, though: most of it is Jerome's guilt, self-loathing, loathing of almost everybody else as well, and confused near-blasphemous adulation of Robert. There is no kissing so far and may never be any on the page. (Off the page, after the ending as planned, I have hopes for them.)
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I shall look (patiently) forward!
I mean, in at least one respect I have already done better than either Ellis Peters or the TV show, in having a wedding take place at the church door rather than inside the church.
I admire that. (I used to write very little historical fiction because it was a surefire way to end up languishing in research K-holes. Now that I write much more more historical fiction, all I can do is try not to drown in the research, but I care about things like the right brand of cigarette.)
There is no kissing so far and may never be any on the page. (Off the page, after the ending as planned, I have hopes for them.)
Frankly, if you can get him to contemplate the concept without exploding, I'll rate the fic a romantic success.
Yay!