Well, this draft is turning into a simplification draft. For example, the heroine doesn’t need two supplemental father figures. The stepfather and the foster father have now merged, and I don’t know why I didn’t think of that before. I suppose because I had a stepfather.
This draft is also doling out the exposition so it isn’t all crammed into chapter one. It’s like a puzzle, like programming.
But, because I have exposition on my mind, I’m painfully aware of the exposition in anything I watch. For example, I’m watching The Gilded Age on HBO, and a woman says something to her husband prefaced with, “Well, as you are already aware, [blah blah blatant exposition].” Tsk, I say. Tsk, Tsk, Tsk.
Then again, I’ll take it, and even some stilted dialog on top, as long as I get tea porn and architecture porn and hat porn. Even some kinky hat porn.
Are those provocatively posed turkey legs dressed in ruffled paper anklets? I think so.