a trail of bird-crumbs

[hedda62]

*sighs* I am truly still delighted at what's coming out of my desire to sit Harold Finch and Simon Illyan down for a really good chat, but oh dear, I wish this fic didn't feel it needs to have significant plot and pacing and stuff like that. I'm at a point of decision where I could either go on and let Harold tell Simon the whole backstory, or I could skip merrily on to another section where what he's said is revealed otherwise, though how I have no idea, because no one else knows, not even John Reese, and Simon will hardly want to tell anyone else about it (well, possibly Cordelia, but I've done the Simon-confesses-to-Cordelia bit in "Sparrow"). So I suppose just going on past the wants-to-be-a-dramatic-pause moment is the best solution. Let's See What Happens.

This is at least easier than it was before my nap. I haven't been out of the house all day; it's a nasty cold, with serious brain-impairing capabilities, but it may improve tomorrow.

Favorite line in the story so far:

...Don't you think he might have left the trail of... bird-crumbs in place for his continued amusement, and then been caught short, so to speak, before he could replace it with something more plausible?" Caught short was ImpSec for shot by Vordarian's guards while escaping with young Emperor Gregor, dying soon afterwards in great pain and uncertain triumph.

But tell us how you really feel about Negri, Harold (which is another reason to keep going; I do actually want him to).

Speaking of Harold and unpleasant people, if the very few "Person of Interest" fans here haven't yet read Point of a Pistol, go do so as soon as you have time for 25K words of Rootastic pitch-perfect adventure with bonus Finch/Reese. I also admired on admin error {execute contingency plan} despite its sad premise. Those are my only Yuletide recs to date (I'm sure I will get to more when I'm done poking at this story *pokes*).

Comments

[philomytha]

Plot and pacing, oh dear. Good luck with it! All my brain-processing seems to have been switched to Baby mode, so I am writing short plotless and mostly fluffy things for fandom_stocking and not much else even though I have oodles of spare time. But I'm looking forward to Simon and Harold talking and Harold's views on Negri :-).

And I have that long PoI fic downloaded to my Kindle for later reading, along with a bunch of other long Yuletide fics. It's weird having a year without a bunch of Vorkosigan fics to play with, though.

[hedda62]

Yes, alas no Winterfair, but at least there's plenty of other reading material out there. And I understand the brain-mode switch totally.

[ailis_fictive]

Since I am currently mired in Plot and Pacing issues myself (does the Padma arc need a third conversation to resolve? Yes, probably. What's in it and when does it happen? No blasted idea. Do I want to write the Simon/Alys/Padma threesome? Yes, but not in this fic; it's a half-universe farther over) I can only nod in agreement. I'm also currently playing with Negri (in person, not just his legacy), so this appeals to me lots and lots!

Now if only my brain would stop dropping details on me from the Barryar-the-series novel-shaped-thing that I'm not writing (yet)...

[hedda62]

Heh, at least my brain is mostly living in one universe at the moment! Good luck with resolving your issues!