Pecking away at Part Two...
Aug. 3rd, 2005 01:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixrefugeeI've got the sections of "L'Homme Fatal" laid out (Three parts and an "interlude"). I'm roughly calling them "Birth", "Life", "Freedom" (the "interlude", which may go after the first section, I haven't decided yet...), and "Death". I finished writing most of the first part today, and I'm knocking around with the interlude: I just gotta write the sex scene ("This is the sex scene. It stays." -- the Wachowski Brothers' note on the script for "Bound") and a couple other bits. The next section is gonna be tough, as I'm showing how the mysterious protagonist "Yves Merovee" manages to settle in among his patron's millieu and how they react to this rather odd young man... What's tough is that it takes place in the Second Matrix, in the years leading up to the rise of the first One, so I'm trying to pinpoint what year(s) this might be taking place. The first part I deliberately made rather timeless, but I want to be more specific in the next part... we'll see how this pans out.
And it looks like the Merv as I know him has an eye on this fic. He's pretty much "hired" me as his biographer/memoir writer. Quelle charmant... I don't mind it but I do, if that makes any sense. As a result, he's been in my headspace more than ever. That and tomorrow is his "birthday"; he's turning 49 going on 800, give or take a few years, and according to Flood, the Merv's been 49 for the past three iterations of the Matrix. "The illusion has worn so thin that it doesn't fool anyone, least of all *me*," he says.
And it looks like the Merv as I know him has an eye on this fic. He's pretty much "hired" me as his biographer/memoir writer. Quelle charmant... I don't mind it but I do, if that makes any sense. As a result, he's been in my headspace more than ever. That and tomorrow is his "birthday"; he's turning 49 going on 800, give or take a few years, and according to Flood, the Merv's been 49 for the past three iterations of the Matrix. "The illusion has worn so thin that it doesn't fool anyone, least of all *me*," he says.