Many cinemas these days are pretty standard and basic but there was a time when movie houses had tremendous architecture and interior design.
The Garden Palace where my book is set has three major functions theatre, film, and outdoor performances.
Apart from the Palace Theatre which is the largest venue, there is the Cinema Palace which is a twin level movie house that screens retrospective films of an evening. Whilst its design is not as garish as this picture, it does have some very unique features that depict the era when the original Garden Palace stood proudly in the eastern end of Sydney City in the late 19th Century.
In the current chapter I have been editing, the characters have been spending a bit of time in the Cinema as they show a short documentary film in there as part of the Garden Palace tour.
I reported last week that the chapter should be completed by this blog and sadly that is not so. There seems to be obstacles at every turn, but its not just that, the Garden Palace is growing.
I seem to not take that into account so when i see there is only 2 pages left to edit, I forget that this is turning into 4-6 pages of story.
In the original version there was 12 chapters plus a prologue and with Nana Sakata's illustrations the book was just over 200 pages long.
This version also has 12 chapters plus the prologue but as yet we don't have any sketches, however the page count so far for the first 4 chapters plus the prologue has already surpassed 100 even without the drawings. On top of that, the chapters get bigger as the book progresses so who knows what length this is going to blow out to.
With the current delays, the online publish date is now back to January 31st 2014.
This date allows for proof reading and edits for the current first draft, a second draft, and a final edit plus all illustrations.
Stay tuned
J G S
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