"Shuffle-shuffle to the office, the 400mgs of Olanzapine had sent her crashing. Tearing up your house was not okay, but a woman dying quietly inside apparently was. Keep your death to yourself, that was the message". The energy of the writing draws me in and the pathos of it puts me through the emotional wringer. Another superb chapter.
Man you do chaos well Eleanor. Personality and emotion flinging in all directions, yet somehow you maintain a center, I’m thinking perhaps because of your unwavering, refined voice and style.
That’s really nice to hear - I’ve been thinking about this in the context of serialisation, that because the reader doesn’t know where they are in terms of the whole book, the writer needs keep the axis of the story, its central themes around which the story orbits, present in each chapter, even if the reader is only aware of it on a subconscious level.
“I don’t think that’s in the script,” said Roger. 😂 Love the chaos in this scene. And the limited interiority adds to it. Another LOL - Mercury is always in retrograde here. It made me wonder instantly if you chose the ward name based on that or if it was one of those lovely moments that emerge in the writing.
"Shuffle-shuffle to the office, the 400mgs of Olanzapine had sent her crashing. Tearing up your house was not okay, but a woman dying quietly inside apparently was. Keep your death to yourself, that was the message". The energy of the writing draws me in and the pathos of it puts me through the emotional wringer. Another superb chapter.
I am growing rather concerned, if there is in fact a baby involved...
The cruelty of being misunderstood and talked down to ...
Man you do chaos well Eleanor. Personality and emotion flinging in all directions, yet somehow you maintain a center, I’m thinking perhaps because of your unwavering, refined voice and style.
That’s really nice to hear - I’ve been thinking about this in the context of serialisation, that because the reader doesn’t know where they are in terms of the whole book, the writer needs keep the axis of the story, its central themes around which the story orbits, present in each chapter, even if the reader is only aware of it on a subconscious level.
“I don’t think that’s in the script,” said Roger. 😂 Love the chaos in this scene. And the limited interiority adds to it. Another LOL - Mercury is always in retrograde here. It made me wonder instantly if you chose the ward name based on that or if it was one of those lovely moments that emerge in the writing.
Incredible to believe, but it’s the real name of a psychiatric unit that I know of. It was too good not to use.
WOAH!
“Give me perfectly strange and very charming.”
Brilliant! The confusion, the chaos of her thoughts, the not knowing if it's real or a hallucination. Poor Tessa's devolution is heart breaking.
Thanks for the restack Prada