Fic: And All is Dross That is Not Helena

[jjpor]

Fic: And All is Dross That is Not Helena

Well, I guess I have to thank/blame my associate Maggadin/akashasheiress for this one! ;D It was in considering her livejournal poll regarding various Doctor/companion ships that I got thinking along these lines, and once I started thinking, I couldn't get rid of the idea until I'd written it. I feel kind of dirty and ashamed now... ;D Er, yeah, so while this isn't explicit-explicit, it isn't entirely fade-to-black either, so be warned. And of course Doctor Who and its various copyrights and characters definitely do not belong to me.

The link:

www.whofic.com/viewstory.php

Right, now I'm going to get back to the original story and finishing that TW fic, and other stuff that doesn't leave me feeling like a sicko... :D

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

I have the feeling that this is one fic of yours I am going to have to leave alone. :-(

[Unknown site tag], stop with the corruption, now! I'd much rather have more of the fantasy novel.

(And while I'm here: what I was vaguely getting towards saying the other day when i worried about us commenting it to death was that: you have a beginning and a good beginning. You're not sure about the style, but that's okay. This is probably too late; there's probably a 10,000 epic battle prologue in prohress, but unless you have in mind any changes to that that change What Happens (and therefore What Happens Next), just write on. Get wherever it is you're going, and by the time you get there, what should be at the start will be blindingly obvious anyway. On the other hand, despite my lack of interest in battles - sorry! - I always find your warfare so poetically written, I enjoy it nonetheless. :lol: It's very odd giving advice on a fragment and not knowing anyway. Carry on writing what you want to, as long as you persevere with something - mostly the same something!)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Oh yes indeed; as you say, there's no point in agonising over the beginning if it stops you from getting on with the meat of the story. I have been mostly reading up on the First Crusade and 12th Century tournaments, actually, rather than writing much more, but yes. I'm going to give the opening another once-over, and finish off the bit about the character and her mum meeting the scary priestesses, and then move onto other stuff. Stuff with knights and archers and things, but a bit further on into the story. I don't know about the killer prologue idea the more that I think of it, it seems a bit too...I don't know what it seems a bit too, but it doesn't seem to fit with the way I want to write this story, even if the way I want to write it turns out to be completely misguided, if you know what I mean... :)

[thisbluespirit]

Good. Follow those instincts. :-D

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

I have! :-D

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing the stop-corrupting sentence was directed to me? All I did was post a poll!;D

Also, Epic Battle Scenes bore me, but I'm guessing that won't be the whole book.;)

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, I mangled the tag. You did tell me you had a tendency to corrupt, though. Take the credit, if you want it. ;-D

(Eek. A whole book as an epic battle scene would be scary.)

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

Well, at least I can say it's not because of my looks.;D

[thisbluespirit]

Heh. You don't know - could be your icon having a strange effect on everyone. :lol:

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...a whole book as an epic battle scene, you say? *muses*

Nah, nah that's crazy talk! :-D

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

I did post pictures a couple of days ago, but my Muse-career or whatever started way before that! Strangely, my icon is not that far off from what I look like IRL, from certain angles.