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man, i don't feel like working today. long fight sequence on the queue and fights are soooo boring to write. just sucks all the strength out of me. bleh. usually i can knock out about 5 or six minutes of dialogue/action in an hour. after an hour this morning so far: 2 and half minutes. pathetic. if they would just fight silently, i could cruise through, but there's foley on every single shot (arghhhh!).
sometimes you just get an episode that makes you want to put your own eyes out. the consolation is, i guess, that when i go back to finish the text, i can just scroll through all that (because it's done!).
and you know the morning's off to a bad start when you find yourself lj-ing about work. yuck.
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in writing: last night two of my characters eloped.
it wasn't entirely unexpected ~ i knew they were getting married ~ i just didn't realize they'd forego the whole wedding ceremony, etc.
of course, now that i look at it, it makes perfect sense.
from a historical perspecive, i don't think a minister would have married them given their arrangment (an eighteen year-old girl with no family and an unbaptised man hostile to religion?), so they would have had a civil union anyway. this would also underscore the irregularity of the marriage later on when it comes into question with regards to having it annulled.
i've been kicking this around for a while because i kept wondering how it gets resolved once the couple is legally separated and the wife converts to Catholicism while the husband's still steadfastly against religion. though the marriage is legally annulled, the Church still recognizes it as "valid" in the sense that it's binding (neither party can remarry).
but ~ if they chose to marry each other (again), i don't believe they would have to remarry in the Church (because they are already married!) ~ they would just have the union blessed. but they would either need an exemption from the bishop (for disparity of cult, which is something i have serious doubts about happening too easily in 1873), or the husband would have to be at the very least properly baptised. the latter, i don't mind affecting if that's what's necessary. i think he'd do it for her, which is tricky in and of itself, but i know Morse could convince him that he's Christian even if he doesn't know it. i feel a wee squirmy about the (seeming) underhandedness of this, but i think if i can handle it eloquently enough, it will be up-and-up. Morse is jesuitical in a lot of ways, but he'd never bend the rules in an inappropriate way where the sacraments are concerned.
on the other hand, annulling the marriage would likewise be equally do-able on the grounds of the same disparity of cult and the husband's refusal to have children ~ two of the only reasons the Catholic Church would have permitted a dissolution of marriage in those days. i think Morse would argue that the union is fixed and there's no changing it, regardless of canon law, but he would have to concede that legally the two could have the marriage annulled in the Church if that was what they wanted.
the whole point was to let them choose. i was worried that they were somehow bound by the marriage regardless of a civil annullment, which would water down the choice of remarrying ~ it would almost be no choice at all. and the last thing i want is to put a potentially abused spouse in the position of being forced back into a potentially abusive marriage "because the Church says the marriage is binding".
so now it's up to them: can they work out their differences and fix their marriage when it falls apart? they get to decide for themselves ~ my problem's solved! it's a perfect scenario in its own way: they're technically married, but not, and it could go either way depending on what it is they want.
all that, and i like the pages i wrote last night. it's been hard to find ways of showing why she would have married a man with so many obvious serious "issues", but i find when i get the two of them together alone, we can see another side of him that is ingenuous and appealing ~ the person he should have been if the war had not ruined his disposition. he does love her after all, even if he's lousy at expressing it.
so all-in-all got some good work done last night. yay!
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i had thought to get a little ahead on the work today, but so far it's not looking like it's going to happen. i'm going to try to push through for another hour or so and then fergit it, i'm on to something (anything!) else. maybe when i get over the hump, it will flow more smoothly.
beautiful crisp post-rain morning. i threw open all the windows and am slightly cold, but it feels good.
sometimes you just get an episode that makes you want to put your own eyes out. the consolation is, i guess, that when i go back to finish the text, i can just scroll through all that (because it's done!).
and you know the morning's off to a bad start when you find yourself lj-ing about work. yuck.
~ * ~
in writing: last night two of my characters eloped.
it wasn't entirely unexpected ~ i knew they were getting married ~ i just didn't realize they'd forego the whole wedding ceremony, etc.
of course, now that i look at it, it makes perfect sense.
from a historical perspecive, i don't think a minister would have married them given their arrangment (an eighteen year-old girl with no family and an unbaptised man hostile to religion?), so they would have had a civil union anyway. this would also underscore the irregularity of the marriage later on when it comes into question with regards to having it annulled.
i've been kicking this around for a while because i kept wondering how it gets resolved once the couple is legally separated and the wife converts to Catholicism while the husband's still steadfastly against religion. though the marriage is legally annulled, the Church still recognizes it as "valid" in the sense that it's binding (neither party can remarry).
but ~ if they chose to marry each other (again), i don't believe they would have to remarry in the Church (because they are already married!) ~ they would just have the union blessed. but they would either need an exemption from the bishop (for disparity of cult, which is something i have serious doubts about happening too easily in 1873), or the husband would have to be at the very least properly baptised. the latter, i don't mind affecting if that's what's necessary. i think he'd do it for her, which is tricky in and of itself, but i know Morse could convince him that he's Christian even if he doesn't know it. i feel a wee squirmy about the (seeming) underhandedness of this, but i think if i can handle it eloquently enough, it will be up-and-up. Morse is jesuitical in a lot of ways, but he'd never bend the rules in an inappropriate way where the sacraments are concerned.
on the other hand, annulling the marriage would likewise be equally do-able on the grounds of the same disparity of cult and the husband's refusal to have children ~ two of the only reasons the Catholic Church would have permitted a dissolution of marriage in those days. i think Morse would argue that the union is fixed and there's no changing it, regardless of canon law, but he would have to concede that legally the two could have the marriage annulled in the Church if that was what they wanted.
the whole point was to let them choose. i was worried that they were somehow bound by the marriage regardless of a civil annullment, which would water down the choice of remarrying ~ it would almost be no choice at all. and the last thing i want is to put a potentially abused spouse in the position of being forced back into a potentially abusive marriage "because the Church says the marriage is binding".
so now it's up to them: can they work out their differences and fix their marriage when it falls apart? they get to decide for themselves ~ my problem's solved! it's a perfect scenario in its own way: they're technically married, but not, and it could go either way depending on what it is they want.
all that, and i like the pages i wrote last night. it's been hard to find ways of showing why she would have married a man with so many obvious serious "issues", but i find when i get the two of them together alone, we can see another side of him that is ingenuous and appealing ~ the person he should have been if the war had not ruined his disposition. he does love her after all, even if he's lousy at expressing it.
so all-in-all got some good work done last night. yay!
: D
~ * ~
i had thought to get a little ahead on the work today, but so far it's not looking like it's going to happen. i'm going to try to push through for another hour or so and then fergit it, i'm on to something (anything!) else. maybe when i get over the hump, it will flow more smoothly.
beautiful crisp post-rain morning. i threw open all the windows and am slightly cold, but it feels good.
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Be much simpler to write...They fought...first dude won...The end. :)
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sometimes i'm appalled at what they will do ~ but fortunately more often, i'm pleasantly surprised.
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