August 2011

I’m going to spend the rest of today puppet building but… while I’m locked in the basement, here is Chapter 28 of The Transfigured Lady draft.

This weekend I went to the Oregon Regency Society’s annual picnic at Pittock Mansion. I will freely admit that I started attending last year for research. I wanted to wear the clothes and try the dancing and talk to people who knew the period. I discovered on the very first evening that I really liked

Sometimes, when I’m writing I use brackets to keep myself from wandering off to research something Right Then. This results in things like the following sentence from my WIP. The upstairs parlour was [description of a nice Victorian room]. or sometimes, I just don’t want to think about it because I’ll lose the rhythm of