Heaven by the sea

Christine and Raoul's backstory has actually been flowing quite well, when I get down to it: a page yesterday and another the day before. (The fact that I don't get down to it until after dark means that my right hand is suffering from chilblains again...)

I always did enjoy doing backstory and dialect, and I had the idea of getting Christine's maid (having created her on the spur of the moment simply in order to open the door to Hertha) to deliver the backstory instead of Christine herself -- having just inconvenently made a big (autobiographical) point of how the latter was being extremely reticent about speaking Raoul's name at all! In fact I've ended up effectively ventriloquising the story at two removes, since Lisotte herself wasn't present for most of it -- so this is implicitly an account of the letters she received from her sister, being summarised to the reader by Hertha as narrator listening to Lisotte telling the story ;-D( Read more... )