Showing posts with label The King's speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The King's speech. Show all posts

Friday, March 4, 2011

What's Next for Georgie?

I'm nearly done with the next Molly book, so naturally my attention is turning to Georgie and what is up for her.
She has been abroad for the past two books, so I think it's time to bring her back to England, don't you? And with the King's Speech doing so frightfully well (as she would say) I'm wondering whether I can do something with Georgie that ties in to that branch of the royals.
Any suggestions on what you'd like to see happening to Georgie next?

And speaking of royal weddings--I am seriously bummed. The royal wedding will happen when I am on the East coast for a convention. I won't even get to watch the whole thing. Not fair. John will record it back at home and I'll watch it later but it's not the same.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

The King's Speech

I saw the King's Speech a few days ago. I thought it was wonderful.Of course I never need an excuse to see Colin Firth.. although I liked him better with his shirt all wet as Darcy... in fact he was obviously the inspiration for the male lead in my Lady Georgie series.

The movie, of course, was filled with characters with whom I'm very familiar.I found myself watching and thinking, " no, he didn't really say that." As if the character were a friend or relative-- someone I really knew rather than somebody I spend a lot of my time writing about. It's interesting how real our characters become to us.

In my books Mrs Simpson takes great delight in making fun of the then Duke of York for his horrible stammer, and criticises his wife at her lack of style.She calls her the dowdy duchess. Of course the Duchess made it quite clear that she disapproved of Mrs Simpson and that Mrs Simpson would never be one of them.
When the Prince of Wales abdicated, putting her husband on the throne instead,the new Queen Elizabeth never forgave Mrs Simpson--to the extent that she had never allowed Mrs Simpson back in the country not even for her husband's funeral.

But as I watched the movie I couldn't help thinking irrereverently, that it was a good thing the King George didn't have to use my speech programme. You see, the program types every single thing that I say. So if I stumble or repeat myself those words show up on the screen. And I didn't realise until now that I mutter to myself as well. So things like, "no that's not the right word--what do I want to say ? No don't type that. Oh bugger ,"show up with monotonous frequency in the middle of things I'm writing.

Hopefully I'll be back to typing a week or so.