As the wedding looms I've been rather side-tracked with anything
other than writing, my own life taking more precedence than my characters, thankfully.
However in between some roundabout rambling I’ve managed to join the Black
Library Bolthole forums and have attempted to join their *gulp* fan fiction collective
and contribute in some way. Initially I realise that this was because I felt
like joining a support forum for ‘People who submit to Black Library and then
can’t quit.
Before all of this I should admit that I am a vehement loving
stickler for canon, to the degree that I tutt like a schoolboys unforgiving mother
when something breaches it. The Bolthole can be a real breaker of the canon in
some regards, other times it can be very much the equal stickler as I am.
Personally, canon adherence can force me to refuse to continue a story if it is
so dangerously divergent from the norm. Lord of the Night by Simon Spurrier I
had to halt when the Night Lord became slightly too emotional, early Ragnar
books fell equally into this trap. The Inquisition War books I dodged too after
the protagonist met Mr Emperor in his own chambers. It put me off.
No people...just no.
No people...just no.
