To glimpse or not to glimpse

Seems like my little glimpse of heaven is causing all my beta's to have a few jitters. It is such a little thing, lol, that I find it a little hard to understand the reservations expressed by everyone. Perhaps it is because it takes a character so out of, well, character. Would Elizabeth glimpse or not? Would Jane?

Well, I have been doing some deep thinking, and today I will do some deep cleaning, just to resolve it in my head. Chapter 23 is fast approaching and the issue of the glimpse will be staring me in the face. - another laugh here! If I take it out then I will most definitely do a blog post to include the reference for anyone that reads this stuff so they will not wonder for the rest of their lives. In fact, if I put the reference in the blog then, then I will do a poll.

Polls, what good are they? Do they work? Take my little Rawlings poll. Does it matter which way it went, because truthfully the story is written. In a way that was a bad poll because it had no power to persuade me to change the direction of the story. But in my mind, it helped me to understand if I was conveying the right words for the reason Rawlings is pursuing Lydia. There is nothing in my story to make one think so ill of Lydia. There is only the preconceived notion of Lydia.

Ah, Lydia and Rawlings. Rawlings and Lydia. Lydia and...

Back to the glimpse. The whole, giggle, conversation about the glimpse happens later with the men and the way they speak is not so subtle. Men may speak in riddles or use symbolism to convey thoughts (like the pool game that is coming up Tomorrow) but nowadays it is just blunt words. Was it just the regency era that caused discussions to have hidden messages and meanings? Do men do this today?

When men are speaking to men, I mean are they clever? Men speaking to women are pretty blunt. It is like colors. They see red, we see crimson. We use softer words they use harsher ones. It is an old joke about the colors. I remember an old Cary Grant movie, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, and Mrs. Blandings is showing the painters the colors she wants for the rooms. She holds up a tiny piece of thread and say match this - it is robins egg blue not sky blue. She does the same with other colors. In the end the two painters go over her list and say Blue, Green, White. lol yes even back in those ancient times of yesteryear, men were projected this way. There must be some truth because I tried to do this with my sons. I wanted an off white color for my living area, Stephen kept saying White. His brother, Edward at least said light yellow. lol They did not understand eggshell. lol

To glimpse or not. DebraAnne holds the key. She is my last beta to look at the Chapter.

And in this weeks post I removed the open slot remark. it is now take possession of the territory. It is less, umm, pornographic in image. Although it would have fit in well with AHA and HG. Originally I used open slot because I did not wish to say fall into the hole! which is even worse. so I switched it to slot which I thought was less graphic but now it is pretty vanilla. If I was writing a NC-17 story then the open slot would work better. The glimpse would seem pretty tepid, though.

What to do? word choice does make a difference. It does go to characterizations. I cannot forget that.

I have a week to resolve the glimpse. Good gosh, I hope i do not spend it in cleaning! lol

gayle