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Characters have a way of appearing in a story. Especially, I think when one is a pantser. In my published novel, The Moscow Affair, such a character strolled onto the stage and stayed there. She is Avdotya, the Baroness Bobrinsky, known to everyone as Dunyasha. She and Lady Dru become best of friends.
Here is a snippet from my forthcoming Lady Dru novel. Dru has just said she is so very glad Dunyasha decided to join the expedition.
“I almost didn’t,” Dunyasha replied, “but this one --”, she hooked a thumb in Klara’s direction, "was most persuasive. Besides, I couldn’t live with myself if anything happened to you.”
“So you decided to join us just to play mother hen,” I said.
“Someone has to. You get yourself into the damnedest predicaments. Doesn’t she, Karl?”
Karl smiled and said, “That she does. Sir Galahad would have to put in overtime.”
[Originally posted 4 January 2015 on www.cwhawes.com.]
Characters have a way of appearing in a story. Especially, I think when one is a pantser. In my published novel, The Moscow Affair, such a character strolled onto the stage and stayed there. She is Avdotya, the Baroness Bobrinsky, known to everyone as Dunyasha. She and Lady Dru become best of friends.
Here is a snippet from my forthcoming Lady Dru novel. Dru has just said she is so very glad Dunyasha decided to join the expedition.
“I almost didn’t,” Dunyasha replied, “but this one --”, she hooked a thumb in Klara’s direction, "was most persuasive. Besides, I couldn’t live with myself if anything happened to you.”
“So you decided to join us just to play mother hen,” I said.
“Someone has to. You get yourself into the damnedest predicaments. Doesn’t she, Karl?”
Karl smiled and said, “That she does. Sir Galahad would have to put in overtime.”
[Originally posted 4 January 2015 on www.cwhawes.com.]
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