Day 31 - Whispered dreams

August 31 - They're talking in whispers

     They are a handsome couple as they sweep the floor to a waltz and none of those watching would deny it, though they may protect in the same breath that the pair was very odd indeed.  Why a man such as he would deign to dance with a lass such as she, well, they simply could not supposed.  Wasn't the look in his eye that of love?  Well!  They wouldn't dare assume!  He, after all, was a terribly rich and private person, who knew what one such as he thought.  He certainly wasn't the kind to display such feelings.

     Is it Elizabeth and Darcy?  Belle and Mr. Gold?  Anne and Wentworth?  I have no idea.  I have been on such an Austen/Pride and Prejudice kick lately.  ^_^  No matter who is dancing, all the ladies are in floofy dresses and the men are in suits and cravats and are terribly dashing!  And those whispering are doing so behind fans.  
     I got lost wandering the web looking at pictures of those pairings (even though I already had the Darcys), which is why this post is a little late.  :)  I used the 'newer' Wentworth rather than Cirian Hinds because Cirian looked ridiculous in all the pictures I could find of him.

Day 31 - Dreaming Your Ship

     How much of my work is autobiographical?  Well ... most of my main characters are auburn, have younger siblings, age as I do ... physically they do resemble me but that is about where it ends, which is part of the point Ms. A makes by quoting John Cheever.  "As you dream your ship, you perhaps know the boat, but you're going toward a coast that's quite strange, you're wearing strange clothes, the language you don't understand, but the woman on your left is your wife."
     Most authors include some aspect of their life in their work I imagine, some more transparently than others.