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Today's entry is the first one this year that is not from Mrs. Hawking part VI. I'm running out of pieces from that one I'm willing to post early due to spoilers, so today I banged together a scene from the greater Hawking apocrypha (as I'm calling it, heh) depicting a letter exchange between Reginald and Ambrose Hawking, where the younger brother tells the elder about his interesting bit of news since coming to Singapore.
I've always been kind of enamored of the theatrical conceit of staging exchanges in letters as conversations ever since I saw it in the musical 1776. It occurred to me it would be appropriate for this moment between Reginald and Ambrose, since they would be on different continents at the time. I had a bee in my bonnet about making it a conversation that theoretically would work even if they were not actually responding to one another line by line, to make it a bit more ingenuous as an intercontinental letter exchange. That kind of fell by the wayside for speed's sake, but I think it could be tweaked in an edit to make that work a little better.
It's not the most useful scene, as it tells us very little plot information we don't already know. But for some deeply weird reason, I've spent a TON of time thinking about Reginald Hawking's psychology— a really intense amount given how rarely he actually appears in the story. Stuff like this helps me sort of embed it in him as a character in a meaningful way, make it manifest in a way that actually informs the narrative, rather than be a bunch of weird pointless trivia in my head.
This might kiiiiiiiiinda count as cheating as I technically scribbled a scene of Reginald telling Ambrose about having met Victoria years ago, 2013's Day #24 - The Lieutenant's Daughter. But the scenario is changed and absolutely no dialogue is reused, so I'm going to allow this one. Though I've never used any text from that piece, it turned out to be really developmentally useful, as it helped me figure out a lot of things about the circumstances of Reginald and Victoria's early relationship that became relevant in part IV: Gilded Cages.
( Day #19 - Letters From Abroad )
I've always been kind of enamored of the theatrical conceit of staging exchanges in letters as conversations ever since I saw it in the musical 1776. It occurred to me it would be appropriate for this moment between Reginald and Ambrose, since they would be on different continents at the time. I had a bee in my bonnet about making it a conversation that theoretically would work even if they were not actually responding to one another line by line, to make it a bit more ingenuous as an intercontinental letter exchange. That kind of fell by the wayside for speed's sake, but I think it could be tweaked in an edit to make that work a little better.
It's not the most useful scene, as it tells us very little plot information we don't already know. But for some deeply weird reason, I've spent a TON of time thinking about Reginald Hawking's psychology— a really intense amount given how rarely he actually appears in the story. Stuff like this helps me sort of embed it in him as a character in a meaningful way, make it manifest in a way that actually informs the narrative, rather than be a bunch of weird pointless trivia in my head.
This might kiiiiiiiiinda count as cheating as I technically scribbled a scene of Reginald telling Ambrose about having met Victoria years ago, 2013's Day #24 - The Lieutenant's Daughter. But the scenario is changed and absolutely no dialogue is reused, so I'm going to allow this one. Though I've never used any text from that piece, it turned out to be really developmentally useful, as it helped me figure out a lot of things about the circumstances of Reginald and Victoria's early relationship that became relevant in part IV: Gilded Cages.
( Day #19 - Letters From Abroad )
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