Protected: The Transfigured Lady, draft: Chapter 4
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I was writing today and hit a point where I needed my nice young Edwardian lady to exclaim with frustration. It’s a point where a modern actress would likely say “Shit” and that’s so not correct. Oh, so not correct, for 1907. So I wrote, When he left the room, Cora slapped her palm against
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Today, I have for you Chapter 3 of The Transfigured Lady, which means that I’ve finished Chapter 5. Yay! It took longer than I expected since I realized — based on your comments — that Chapter 5 was going to need an additional scene so I had to rejigger the outline a little. I’ve posted
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So the exciting words I looked up today to check for use in 1907 were: Post-theater crowd — No! Changed to “after-theater crowd” poor sap — Yes, but it doesn’t appear to be common slang at this point– “poor sap-headed” appears a couple of times but sap, meaning simpleton, doesn’t appear to be in significant
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Here is the list of questions I am sending to my awesome brother, who is getting his PhD. in history at Vanderbilt. He’s offered to do legwork for me in Nashville. Books are great, but there are times when you just run into dead ends that need a local to track things down. The novel
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I’m plugging along at The Transfigured Lady and just wrapped up Chapter Four. I’m trying to stay at least two chapters ahead of what I’m posting here because of the way I tend to write. I often layer things as I go. That is to say, an idea will occur to me while I’m writing
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