Progress report: Atonement 5 (Torchwood) finished

[wiseheart]

It will take another 3 weeks until it hits the ether, but at least it's done. It's grown bloody lang and talkative, with little to nothing to happen, but sometimes such chapters have to be, too. Copied the first 2 pages of Chapter 6 - they were written in advance - and that means the plot will make another lazy turn. I think I'll have to write some drabbles to even out the ungodly word count. I mean 6600 words in one sodding chapter? It's not normal!

Excerpt:
In which Ianto visits Dr. Fox in her office at Providence Park

She looked up from her papers, smiling, when there was a knock on the door and Ianto Jones limped into her office, without waiting for an invitation.

“Ianto, you’re done already? How was physio?”

“Effective, I must assume, since I hurt a lot more now than I did before,” Ianto replied with a crooked smile and collapsed into the armchair before her desk.

Dr. Fox gave him a sympathetic grin. “Sorry to hear that. But the control tests are promising. The tremors in your hand have lessened by sixty per cent in the last four weeks – that’s great news. The prognosis is that you’ll regain full control over your fine motoric within another month.”

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Again, warning about wrongly used expressions or mutilated grammar are very welcome. At least some of the paragraphs would turn out grammatically correct that way.

Other than that, I've read through my good friend Larner's essay about Tol Eressëa because she asked me. As usual, it was well-written and well-researched. Still no progress with Elfhelm, I think I've trapped myself with those dratted marriage negotiations. *sighs*

Oh, and I've updated my fanfic rec comm, telekis_vendiak, adding a few Sherlock stories, if anyone's interested.

Six more days until school restarts. *sighs again*

Comments

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on finishing another chapter.
Poor Ianto! Physio is hard - but hopefully will work in the end.

Have you tried working backwards on the marriage negotiations? (working out the end result and then looking at how they would have got there) It may not work for you, but is something I've done for difficult scenes...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I know how the negotiations will end, that's not the problem. I even know - roughly - what they need to negotiate: the exchanging of gifts, the assurances that the two familias/clans would mutually support each other, and how it would affect tings between Rohan (at least the Eastfold. where Elfhelm's family lives) and Rhun (at least Imogen's tribe).

I just don't seem able to give it the right form. Hell, any form would be welcome by now, even the wrong one! I actually found sources about Anglo-Saxon wedding rituals, but not what comes before the wedding itself. I mean I know what comes before, just now how it was done. *is frustrated* I don't want to copy it for an imaginary culture, but it would be something to start from. *sigh*