sketch month--places

Reaching back in time but still keeping within the general guidelines of live drawing, I'm posting a couple of sketches that give a sense of place. I know that the perspective isn't quite dead on, but I hope these still give the sense of that attic apartment feel. It's where we lived the first year we were married, in Germany. I notice that in writing, a sense of place is important to me. I've moved many times and each place is like a distinct character, waiting to be understood. Even thought these are very much everyday sort of scenes, I hope they give a sense of place.

The living room:



The kitchen. Notice the thing between the cabinets and the stove? That's a normal-sized German fridge.


Images copyright Rose Green

chapter 20

I'm pretty sure a chapter shouldn't be 7800 words long, even if it's the climax. And it is so riddled with inconsistencies and references to things that supposedly already happened but which just occurred to me that it's not even funny. And I'll have to revise it a few times before I can even insert it into the rest of the book. And then it will have to be revised again. It's terribly self-indulgent. But it's a draft! One more chapter and the complete draft is done!

Off to get kids from school now...