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one inch frame
Lamott's Bird by Bird is a book I often read through when I'm feeling overwhelmed by the project at hand. As I am just now. Her "one inch frame" is a reminder that I'm supposed to be thinking about the character in front of me, and just her, and what she's up to right now. Forget the War of 1812, the British Navy, the complicated politics, the fact that I've got characters waiting for me up there in Paradise and on l'ile de lamatins, too. Just concentrate on Giselle at her breakfast table looking at the ships in the harbor.
The problem is, Giselle is still a little put out at me for leaving her to her own devices.The last we saw her was about half a million words ago and now she's being standoffish. However, she tolerates me as she would a portrait painter.
I wish her husband would come along so I could get a look at him, because I've got a sneaking suspicion that he's somebody I've seen before.
November 11, 2003 08:15 AM
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You are such a tease. You and HBO, making us wait. You do fully realize that it will be, oh, say, two years before we get the resolution of this scene, don't you? meanie.;-)
Posted by: Rachel at November 12, 2003 04:41 PM