Into Chapter 14 of Allie #3 @ClarionWest #Writeathon

[alfreda89]

Well, it's been an interesting month, but I have finished a dynamite Chapter 13, and am into Chapter 14. (My chapters, for the uninitiated, tend to be 20-30 manuscript pages. Or about 5,000-7,500 words.) Dialogue and interaction are flowing...I will finish designing the kitchen later. Except for Thomas Jefferson's stew-stove--we've got that.

Cousin Esme let the former president design her house. How does it look? A lot like Monticello, with wings for the school and the dormitories.

And yes, it's still winter in Manhattan where Cousin Esme's school is located.

Comments

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

That stove looks like a huge version of the stove that was in a house in Japan that my folks lived in in the early 30's. Scarred into memory by the rat that died in the masonry underpinnings!
Mum said that she took that in stride - but the day a very large toad hopped out from under her dressing table and across the room to take refuge under the bed was the day that she broke down in a long crying jag. (They were in back country Japan, and the secret police were starting to keep tabs on-seriously harass foreigners, so it was a bit of a stressful newlywed experience!

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Wow, I bet your Mom has some great stories! I sympathize with her. A friend told me about living in rural Florida, and the day she opened a cabinet in the kitchen to find a spider the size of a PLATE sitting there looking at her. Freak time!