Hey, I'm so glad you're writing! : D I've been really busy the last couple of days and haven't had time to read your draft, but I will tomorrow.
The challenge is this: I can either write with canon, borrowing lines and dialogue as I see fit to better weave the two stories together (I hope) or I try and write my own versions of the last three meetings, which is problematic in that there's a good chance they won't be as impactful as the originals. So far I have chosen the former, but I'm not convinced entirely of it.
I had a similar problem in my recent alternate version of Gleam in the North! I had one scene from the book that I included in detail, but I switched POV so that the reader wouldn't feel it was too similar (plus there were differences which made me want to include it). Also where events were the same, I skipped scenes that were already described in detail, and expanded on events/characters elsewhere that weren't dwelt on in the book. Of course you want to include the Keith/Ewen meetings, so that's probably not an option. But the POV change might be a helpful idea? I mean, not that Broster uses tight third person, but her omniscient POV usually dwells more on one person than others.
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Date: 2021-12-11 09:52 pm (UTC)The challenge is this: I can either write with canon, borrowing lines and dialogue as I see fit to better weave the two stories together (I hope) or I try and write my own versions of the last three meetings, which is problematic in that there's a good chance they won't be as impactful as the originals. So far I have chosen the former, but I'm not convinced entirely of it.
I had a similar problem in my recent alternate version of Gleam in the North! I had one scene from the book that I included in detail, but I switched POV so that the reader wouldn't feel it was too similar (plus there were differences which made me want to include it). Also where events were the same, I skipped scenes that were already described in detail, and expanded on events/characters elsewhere that weren't dwelt on in the book. Of course you want to include the Keith/Ewen meetings, so that's probably not an option. But the POV change might be a helpful idea? I mean, not that Broster uses tight third person, but her omniscient POV usually dwells more on one person than others.