Quotes like this have been showing up in newspapers and blogs everywhere lately:  

An insider at the company told the Daily Star that bosses had been aware of the worsening situation for "a while".

So, I've gotten word from my editor. We've come to an agreement. The character I removed in five of the first six chapters will be returned unharmed. Changed somewhat, but no damage done. But, this means I have to combine the first version of the novel and the second rewrite. Cutting and pasting and reweaving.

The interesting thing is when I decided to remove the character in the first place, I had to get used to the idea. And now that I'm putting them back, it's the same thing. I told my husband that is feels a lot like when our daughter came back home to live. She hadn't been gone long but we'd grown accustomed to having the house to ourselves. All the other characters have been going through their paces without the character. I wonder if they have to adjust as well?

Bill called it "setting a mental plate at the table." I think that's clever.

He's okay by the way. His symptoms are just the hereditary osteoarthritis exerting itself. The physicians assistant said he's got old bones, which is an alternative riff on his saying Bill had old pipes. They don't do much in the medical field to teach tact and deportment, do they?

Oh, for those of you who are bothered by the bright yellow background, sorry. I need something brilliant to get this old brain into rewrite mode. Don't worry, it won't last long. My short attention span guarantees that!

Have a good one

SK

to accept it, it tell me what Frederick Wentworth sees in Anne Elliot.

Jane Austen tells us that Frederick and Anne love one another. Though, after reading this from early in Chapter Four: "Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do and she had hardly any body to love:..." makes me wonder how much of their attraction was a combo of boredom and desperation. Had they gotten married, would they have been happy? Or, does the separation actually work to their benefit by forcing them to grow through the pain and mature into better people?

And, once the challenge of getting back together is over, what do they see in one another?

To be honest, I think FW is always going to be smart and funny and rather a pistol even as he grows older. My grandfather was like this. Anne, on the other hand ... I am at a loss.

I thought I was getting a handle on her in the end of For You Alone. I think I've lost that and I guess I am loath go go and read my own work.

So, what say you? Anne and Frederick. Why are they together?

Take care--Susan Kaye