It's over, it's over, it's over, my friends

[tocryabout]

Chapter 15, "Toute en Splendeur", is complete. Referendum! Annoyingly political relatives! Hockey!

Upon some consideration, I decided that since I'm doing a sequel I have nothing much to say in the epilogue. So we're done. 65,700 words. Endnotes are here.

As a DVD extra sort of thing, I also found a file on my computer which you may or may not find interesting: the McCree/O'Brien family tree, with unimportant siblings left off (I was trying to save space). Nana is Margaret Macdonald, a reference to my own great-aunt who died this year. Grey text = deceased.

Finally, new banner:

(That's Tony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers, not Joel Plaskett.)

Hooray for me, anyhow. The first chapter of the sequel is quite close to complete, so you'll be seeing it quite soon. As soon as I think of a title. (I always regretted giving Aphanes its rather impenetrable Greek name; not really a grabber.)

*drinks wine*

Comments

[to-cry-about.livejournal.com]

The entry was being hard to find, for some reason.

I really meant to do more with Scott and Jean than I did. Once the plot got moving I felt like there wasn't time, and then later I wanted to bounce Joel off people his own age, rather than surround him with adults all the time. But I should have played more with them, because (thinking out loud here) they add something -- Scott is a sane person who doesn't really know how to deal with a kid like Joel, which is why his embrace in the hospital room is the right move: it's a gesture of normality. Jean is almost a motherly figure, but unlike Joel's actual mother, she has some experience of being institutionalised. There's interesting stuff there, and I don't know if I'll get a chance to add to it in the next story. I hope so, because I feel like I shortchanged those characters.

And I like Scott and Jean, dammit.