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Gift of Exile - first fanfic
Bigheart:
Marcia!! How utterly wonderful of you to post these great pictures! I love them. I love the house, LOVE the front porch, LOVE the outdoor pics too and the beach!!!
Thank you so much for doing this! :) :) :) I'll look forward to the update even more now!
one_of_one:
Oh wow Marcia these are fabulous!
I love the "where Ennis stays initially" description of the loft room :) And David's room is uber romantic!
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: one_of_one on February 10, 2007, 03:57:35 pm ---I just flicked back to your first post on this story to get the link because I want to reread again...and you said about 18 chapters. It's not going to tie up so quickly is it?
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No - that was just my initial estimate of the number of chapters. I'd say it's about 60 percent done, but some of the chapters toward the end might be short ones. I'd thought of employing the "snapshot" approach that was done in the movie to cope with a passage of a number of years.
nic:
I was interested to see that you went with the accident version of Jack's death - as you had him trying to recall it (ugh...). Some folk are of the view that cos AP uses the words "the accident" in her prose & only refers to it as the tire iron in conjunction with this being Ennis's thoughts, that it actually was an accident & the tire iron was purely Ennis's view. This doesn't make much difference to your story I don't think, other than making it heart-rending to think of Jack being aware of being attacked so viciously, but I picked up on it cos I've been thinking on it of late & I've come down on the "it was an accident" view after many months of deliberation.
The house pics are great btw :)
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: nic on February 15, 2007, 01:50:43 pm ---I was interested to see that you went with the accident version of Jack's death - as you had him trying to recall it (ugh...). Some folk are of the view that cos AP uses the words "the accident" in her prose & only refers to it as the tire iron in conjunction with this being Ennis's thoughts, that it actually was an accident & the tire iron was purely Ennis's view. This doesn't make much difference to your story I don't think, other than making it heart-rending to think of Jack being aware of being attacked so viciously, but I picked up on it cos I've been thinking on it of late & I've come down on the "it was an accident" view after many months of deliberation.
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Actually, I went with the attack version. If you re-read Jack's recollections in Chapter 16, he recalls getting in a few good licks against his attackers and that "mercifully one of the heavy pipes his assailants had used had broken his neck early on." But personally, I never have decided what version is the "correct" one. If Jack's death was an accident, there's a horrible irony in Ennis situation: he's sacrificed the life he could have had with Jack thinking that if they avoid this one danger (gay-bashing), they'll both be safe. Never stops to think that there are thousands of ways a person can die and any of them could happen to either him or Jack at any time.
However, if Jack was going to continue as a character in the story after his physical death, and I wanted to tell anything from his POV, I had to decide on a cause of death. Jack would certainly remember what happened.
--- Quote ---The house pics are great btw :)
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Thanks! Hope Ennis likes the house too.... ;)
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