Marcellus’ House

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One of the best suggestions I received about Substance of Shadows from author friends is that I should make the novel a little more omniscient. Yeah, that's popular right now.

But you know, the novel wants to be omniscient. There would be an omniscient narrator who could pull things together easily, although the identity of the omniscient narrator would be a bit of a surprise. Still, shooting for that old fashioned Victorian feel. Need to pull away from the modern prose a bit.

Another thing I needed to do was get my houses right. My blocking was getting pretty obnoxious. Rooms were blending in weird ways. I went out to find template houses to pattern my three homes on. These houses will contain most of the action of five books, so they themselves are characters to some extent.

What houses am I using as my templates? Glad you asked. I'll be happy to tell you in this series of entries!

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