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rozk for a quick and dirty lookover, and she pointed out that I really needed to figure out *which* war I dumped them in as that would change what nickname they had for the enemy. After mugging mingmerciless, I'm going with the Malaya post-war clean-up and then Emergency, so I'll be using 'Terrs' or 'CTs' for nickname (traditional British understatement - communist insurgency. For other classic naming devices, see the Troubles. I did love the first time I read a non-British report on this where they pointed out that it was a low-grade war and if it had been anywhere else, we'd be yelling rather than studiously trying to ignore it.) The advantages of having a military geek as a mate - 'Ming, I need to dump a technically green officer into a war, post '45, what's feasible? And the timeline when I add officer training?' Plus I can fudge dates even more since you went with your regiment, not dumped in on your own - wouldn't see battle immediately.
New and sulky thing that I can't use because my fic takes place a couple of years too early. I can't put Peter in the SAS. Yet. They were re-formed in *1950* as a response to this (which fed into Korean war etc.). and of course I only even thought of this when I found the footnote in an article on the Emergency. SULK. (ooops, need to remove mention of one weapon since I found an article that even details the attack style/weapons/uniform of the CTs...)
Got interesting experience of a new beta who tells me off for sentence structure - use of choppy vs. flowing in different places. And she doesn't like 'rough' narration (good for dialogue, not for narration). Wonder if I should show her my other fic - I've been told the short cut-off sentences are a hallmark of mine.
Then there's the missing-scene one where Pevensies are telling tales and Caspian goes 'er, WHAT?'. I had been trying to keep it low-key and Roz told me that his bugging out needs to be more obvious and explicit in terms of inner dialogue since it's *his* POV. Of course, bunnies kicked in once I started expanding and I made myself go to bed before I finished it. :sigh: I'm supposed to be getting *sleep*!
:wails: work, I've managed to get 10% of my usual done due to everything buggering up or problems coming to a head plus queries and Tom coming to me to ask stuff since Lissy is in Liverpool conducting interviews and - :whines: surely just because I'm the most experienced doesn't mean that everyone should be coming to me for solutions? right? right?
rozk for a quick and dirty lookover, and she pointed out that I really needed to figure out *which* war I dumped them in as that would change what nickname they had for the enemy. After mugging mingmerciless, I'm going with the Malaya post-war clean-up and then Emergency, so I'll be using 'Terrs' or 'CTs' for nickname (traditional British understatement - communist insurgency. For other classic naming devices, see the Troubles. I did love the first time I read a non-British report on this where they pointed out that it was a low-grade war and if it had been anywhere else, we'd be yelling rather than studiously trying to ignore it.) The advantages of having a military geek as a mate - 'Ming, I need to dump a technically green officer into a war, post '45, what's feasible? And the timeline when I add officer training?' Plus I can fudge dates even more since you went with your regiment, not dumped in on your own - wouldn't see battle immediately.New and sulky thing that I can't use because my fic takes place a couple of years too early. I can't put Peter in the SAS. Yet. They were re-formed in *1950* as a response to this (which fed into Korean war etc.). and of course I only even thought of this when I found the footnote in an article on the Emergency. SULK. (ooops, need to remove mention of one weapon since I found an article that even details the attack style/weapons/uniform of the CTs...)
Got interesting experience of a new beta who tells me off for sentence structure - use of choppy vs. flowing in different places. And she doesn't like 'rough' narration (good for dialogue, not for narration). Wonder if I should show her my other fic - I've been told the short cut-off sentences are a hallmark of mine.
Then there's the missing-scene one where Pevensies are telling tales and Caspian goes 'er, WHAT?'. I had been trying to keep it low-key and Roz told me that his bugging out needs to be more obvious and explicit in terms of inner dialogue since it's *his* POV. Of course, bunnies kicked in once I started expanding and I made myself go to bed before I finished it. :sigh: I'm supposed to be getting *sleep*!
:wails: work, I've managed to get 10% of my usual done due to everything buggering up or problems coming to a head plus queries and Tom coming to me to ask stuff since Lissy is in Liverpool conducting interviews and - :whines: surely just because I'm the most experienced doesn't mean that everyone should be coming to me for solutions? right? right?
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Date: 2008-08-06 11:04 pm (UTC)Another good one is The Confrontation between the new Federation of Malaysia (formed from Malaya and Singapore and the former British Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak - Brunei pulled out at the last minute) and Indonesia which had assumed it would get the Borneo states when Britain withdrew but that name was probably more from the Indons.