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butterflydreamingThose of you who aren't familiar with "Take Comfort" (my WIP chapter-fanfic) or Card Captor Sakura, just keep scrolling your flist.
So I'm trying to work out the timeline, fitting in Sakura's birthday, the first day of her new school, and Golden Week (which, thankfully, isn't until late April) for "Take Comfort". Although my OCD wants me to pick a real year and chart the moon phases (that is, find a year in which the moon phases work), I am limiting myself to a more simple calendar of events. Those of you not interested, feel free to pass on by.
14 Days. That is all the time that has passed in this fic, and I have to keep reminding myself of that. I had intended it to start mid-March-ish, definitely after Touya's birthday... which, if he has just turned 20 to Sakura's 13, would mean that it was a Real Birthday. Strangely enough, that means that that crappy birthday fic doesn't conflict. How oddly fortunate.
Counting backward, the story starts around March 11th, which works just fine.
Ch 1: Friday, PM
Ch 2: Sat afternoon
Ch 3: Sat afternoon to late Sat night
Ch 4: Sun AM
Ch 5: Sun AM, PM, Monday, Tuesday, Wed night (A lot of time covered in a relatively short chapter)
Ch 6, Ch 7, Ch 8: Wednesday night
The thing is, the whole business started out as this little vignette, essentially what chapter 1 is, but as I started writing it, I realized that there was no way to sum it up in just a vignette. I got the idea for a couple of chapters, and just started writing, no real planning. In the beginning, everything was REALLY short, like 2 pages at most -- I was just starting to learn to write, and "TC" was the 3rd thing that I had ever written for public viewing. So, I'd write down a few ideas, and basically just post it hot.
After I "finished" the story for the first time, I went back to revise, and that's when I realized that I really had to detail the Yukito-Touya thing, and that the Yue Thinking About Things part that I had wanted to put in the first time did need to be there, too. So, Ch 5 expanded.
The First Important Event of the story happens on Wed night, so Wed night got 3 chapters (chaplettes), with the break for the shift in POV. Whisper was the first chapter that I really, really loved. I wrote it, it was sad, and Konnie (my faithful reviewer) inspired a turn in the story that was completely different from how I originally thought to end it. I wanted to give Konnie a happy ending, after all, and I was sitting there, writing in my journal about it, wondering... how... how... and... then... I realized it. It made perfect sense! Nadeshiko, the Star Guardian! I was so happy, that I went back to the draft of Blossoming and finished that through. But I forgot the ringing phone, something that I could hear when I was writing the last scene. (It was Syaoran, of course.)
Well, I had to set up a spell scene to explaing the Will-and-Word rule of magic that I was going to use (my nod to David Eddings), and I needed to create the situation that leads to the Touya/Yukito/Yue menage, hence, Ch 9.
Ch 9:Thurs AM-Eve
Ch 10: Thurs Eve, Fri AM
Ch 11: Fri Eve, Sat
Ch 12: Sun AM
Ch 13: Sun AM
The first time through, I kind of skimmed over the T/Y/Y situation. "TC" was never meant to be a romance. I knew that Touya and Yuki would be getting it on, and Yue having sex with Touya kind of needed to happen. Because the whole point of "TC" has been that Yue is making contact, building relationships, and not only becoming important to others, but having others become important to him, and each person in a different way. Because Yukito has a full life, interacting with the CCS cast, but Yue doesn't. The way canon leaves him, he could disappear without causing too much grief. Sakura would be the saddest, but she would probably get over it, especially if it was just a case of integration with Yukito.
And you know, I can't have that. I want Yue to be happy; I want him to have friends and a family and people to love. Sakura and Touya were upset because Yukito was disappearing, but that was the point where I became intense about the show. Because I was already a Yue fangirl.
So... Nadeshiko. Because Yue needed a friend, and maybe a mother, too, and she was someone who was outside of the normal perameters from the beginning. She got close to him because while she was a spirit, they only had each other to interact with. And so, I was ready to leave the story there, ambiguous ending and all. In my opinion, very anime.
"See?" she said. "Just like you."
But.
I knew there could be more, but there is this scene... I have had a scene in my head that I know is going to happen. I've tried writing it two ways, but -- it's going to happen the way I've always seen it. So I didn't want to do a "sequel", as requested. I realized that I did have to do the revision, which is how Ch 10 & 11 came about -- taking my time to explain. About 12 pages, they way I knew it had happened, but didn't tell anyone the first time.
Instead of a sequel, I decided that a second arc might be fun. Yue still has a ways to go, so I might as well explain that part, too.
Ch 14: Sun AM to afternoon
Ch 15: Sun afternoon to Eve
Between 15 and 16, I skip a week of detail. It's not that important. Since this is a Yue story, and secondarily a Touya story, the important part comes on the weekend.
Ch 16:Fri PM
Ch 17:Sat AM
Ch 18:Sat PM to Sun early eve
And I've left everyone there, at the First Important Event of the second arc. Touya, and Nadeshiko. And that's where 19 will start. As the calendar goes, it's late March. The month is almost over.
And as long as I'm rambling on and on...
"TC" is all about Yue building relationships.
-Yue's relationship to Sakura, which is not romantic though it has elements of something. He's really too old for her, too experienced (while still being very inexperienced); Syaoran is really a much more appropriate focus for her at this time.
-Yue's relationship with Kero -- those too have literally centuries of history together, but for the last several years, they have been apart. Kero has grieved, as much as it is in his nature to grieve, and moved forward.
-Yue's relationship with Touya is still developing. They really are essentially strangers.
-Yue's relationship with Yukito. Oh, this one is important. He can't think of Yukito as a "pathetic loser". Whether Yukito in an individual or an aspect of Yue, he either way came from who Yue is. If Yue distains Yukito, he essentially hates himself; if he admires Yukito, then he loves himself.
-Yue's relationship with... Fujitaka. Ah. But I haven't gotten there yet.
-Yue's relationship with... Tomoyo? As much as she has a relationship with Kero, anyway.
-Yue's relationship with Nadeshiko. And that's also a topic that will have to be explored another day.
-and, Yue's relationship with Clow, or rather the memory of Clow. Because that's the problem, really. Clow was his universe, and now the center of his universe is gone. That's my big symbol, by the way, in case you haven't noticed. All Yue's focus was in one place. And he's still grieving for the loss.
...
I wonder if anyone notices how important (and multiple-meaning) the chapter titles are?
So I'm trying to work out the timeline, fitting in Sakura's birthday, the first day of her new school, and Golden Week (which, thankfully, isn't until late April) for "Take Comfort". Although my OCD wants me to pick a real year and chart the moon phases (that is, find a year in which the moon phases work), I am limiting myself to a more simple calendar of events. Those of you not interested, feel free to pass on by.
14 Days. That is all the time that has passed in this fic, and I have to keep reminding myself of that. I had intended it to start mid-March-ish, definitely after Touya's birthday... which, if he has just turned 20 to Sakura's 13, would mean that it was a Real Birthday. Strangely enough, that means that that crappy birthday fic doesn't conflict. How oddly fortunate.
Counting backward, the story starts around March 11th, which works just fine.
Ch 1: Friday, PM
Ch 2: Sat afternoon
Ch 3: Sat afternoon to late Sat night
Ch 4: Sun AM
Ch 5: Sun AM, PM, Monday, Tuesday, Wed night (A lot of time covered in a relatively short chapter)
Ch 6, Ch 7, Ch 8: Wednesday night
The thing is, the whole business started out as this little vignette, essentially what chapter 1 is, but as I started writing it, I realized that there was no way to sum it up in just a vignette. I got the idea for a couple of chapters, and just started writing, no real planning. In the beginning, everything was REALLY short, like 2 pages at most -- I was just starting to learn to write, and "TC" was the 3rd thing that I had ever written for public viewing. So, I'd write down a few ideas, and basically just post it hot.
After I "finished" the story for the first time, I went back to revise, and that's when I realized that I really had to detail the Yukito-Touya thing, and that the Yue Thinking About Things part that I had wanted to put in the first time did need to be there, too. So, Ch 5 expanded.
The First Important Event of the story happens on Wed night, so Wed night got 3 chapters (chaplettes), with the break for the shift in POV. Whisper was the first chapter that I really, really loved. I wrote it, it was sad, and Konnie (my faithful reviewer) inspired a turn in the story that was completely different from how I originally thought to end it. I wanted to give Konnie a happy ending, after all, and I was sitting there, writing in my journal about it, wondering... how... how... and... then... I realized it. It made perfect sense! Nadeshiko, the Star Guardian! I was so happy, that I went back to the draft of Blossoming and finished that through. But I forgot the ringing phone, something that I could hear when I was writing the last scene. (It was Syaoran, of course.)
Well, I had to set up a spell scene to explaing the Will-and-Word rule of magic that I was going to use (my nod to David Eddings), and I needed to create the situation that leads to the Touya/Yukito/Yue menage, hence, Ch 9.
Ch 9:Thurs AM-Eve
Ch 10: Thurs Eve, Fri AM
Ch 11: Fri Eve, Sat
Ch 12: Sun AM
Ch 13: Sun AM
The first time through, I kind of skimmed over the T/Y/Y situation. "TC" was never meant to be a romance. I knew that Touya and Yuki would be getting it on, and Yue having sex with Touya kind of needed to happen. Because the whole point of "TC" has been that Yue is making contact, building relationships, and not only becoming important to others, but having others become important to him, and each person in a different way. Because Yukito has a full life, interacting with the CCS cast, but Yue doesn't. The way canon leaves him, he could disappear without causing too much grief. Sakura would be the saddest, but she would probably get over it, especially if it was just a case of integration with Yukito.
And you know, I can't have that. I want Yue to be happy; I want him to have friends and a family and people to love. Sakura and Touya were upset because Yukito was disappearing, but that was the point where I became intense about the show. Because I was already a Yue fangirl.
So... Nadeshiko. Because Yue needed a friend, and maybe a mother, too, and she was someone who was outside of the normal perameters from the beginning. She got close to him because while she was a spirit, they only had each other to interact with. And so, I was ready to leave the story there, ambiguous ending and all. In my opinion, very anime.
"See?" she said. "Just like you."
But.
I knew there could be more, but there is this scene... I have had a scene in my head that I know is going to happen. I've tried writing it two ways, but -- it's going to happen the way I've always seen it. So I didn't want to do a "sequel", as requested. I realized that I did have to do the revision, which is how Ch 10 & 11 came about -- taking my time to explain. About 12 pages, they way I knew it had happened, but didn't tell anyone the first time.
Instead of a sequel, I decided that a second arc might be fun. Yue still has a ways to go, so I might as well explain that part, too.
Ch 14: Sun AM to afternoon
Ch 15: Sun afternoon to Eve
Between 15 and 16, I skip a week of detail. It's not that important. Since this is a Yue story, and secondarily a Touya story, the important part comes on the weekend.
Ch 16:Fri PM
Ch 17:Sat AM
Ch 18:Sat PM to Sun early eve
And I've left everyone there, at the First Important Event of the second arc. Touya, and Nadeshiko. And that's where 19 will start. As the calendar goes, it's late March. The month is almost over.
And as long as I'm rambling on and on...
"TC" is all about Yue building relationships.
-Yue's relationship to Sakura, which is not romantic though it has elements of something. He's really too old for her, too experienced (while still being very inexperienced); Syaoran is really a much more appropriate focus for her at this time.
-Yue's relationship with Kero -- those too have literally centuries of history together, but for the last several years, they have been apart. Kero has grieved, as much as it is in his nature to grieve, and moved forward.
-Yue's relationship with Touya is still developing. They really are essentially strangers.
-Yue's relationship with Yukito. Oh, this one is important. He can't think of Yukito as a "pathetic loser". Whether Yukito in an individual or an aspect of Yue, he either way came from who Yue is. If Yue distains Yukito, he essentially hates himself; if he admires Yukito, then he loves himself.
-Yue's relationship with... Fujitaka. Ah. But I haven't gotten there yet.
-Yue's relationship with... Tomoyo? As much as she has a relationship with Kero, anyway.
-Yue's relationship with Nadeshiko. And that's also a topic that will have to be explored another day.
-and, Yue's relationship with Clow, or rather the memory of Clow. Because that's the problem, really. Clow was his universe, and now the center of his universe is gone. That's my big symbol, by the way, in case you haven't noticed. All Yue's focus was in one place. And he's still grieving for the loss.
...
I wonder if anyone notices how important (and multiple-meaning) the chapter titles are?
