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Triumph! (DD4, Chapter Three, Pages 13-17)
🕑 Added 2023-06-15 17:49:00 +0000 UTC(There are no pages 11 and 12, if you're keeping count of that sort of thing. The numbers I use here are the numbers on my files, FWIW. Makes it easier.)
Last week, Katerina was struggling to teach Alexandra to dance in time for the ball; everything is in place except for our heroine's complete inability to dance. Back home, Alexandra's mother was feeling the sadness of her estrangement from her daughter.
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I have no fun details for these pages except that
1) I hope that readers are suitably curious about the ornate dagger, and
2) I hope this sequence lands as intended!
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Oh! I think I do have to go back to Chapter Two and add those decorative tiles to the stairway. I've added that to my Revisions List (post-it notes stuck to my monitor).
Also, in the big Alexandra panel, the hutch behind her initially looked too "mid-century modern," so just now I painted some decoration on it. As a general principle of illustration, it's wild how important decoration can be. It's such an important but invisible-seeming part of our lives; it's easy to get away without representing it (and it saves time and effort), but a decorated world feels more believable.
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Next week: things get ornate!
Until then,
I remain,
as always,
never too cautious,
TC
Comments
Tony Cliff
Ha ha, good point. Near the end, I'll have to make a pass to look for things like that. There are probably a bunch of dialogue pieces that could more properly be "Englished up," as I think they definitely don't say in England. Thank you!
J Banana
One linguistic thing. An English person would say "mum" rather than "mom", but an English person classy enough to go to a ball would definitely say "mother".
Jana Hoffmann
Oof, what a kick in the guts!
