I reworked it with their comments, making it longer, returning to it between drafts of the goose girl. Both agreed-“Um, nice, but it doesn’t quite work.” I showed it to my husband, I showed it to my friend Rosi. How did it turn out? I won’t tell, but it wasn’t the same ending you’ll find in austenland. So I wrote a story called “Ostensibly Jane,” about a woman named Lydia, a wealthy business woman who takes a vacation at an Austen-themed estate and winds up finding unexpected romance. After the anguish I endured completing a first draft of a novel, I wasn’t eager to return to novel-land again in a hurry. It had been bubbling inside me for a few years, and I thought it might make a nice short story. I was already a fairly obsessive writer, used to having my daily time of computer torture, so I looked for an in-between project. I sent it off to a writer friend to read and suddenly found myself with no immediate writing project. In fall 2000, after over a year of on-again, off-again writing of a novel that would become the goose girl, I finally had a complete draft worth showing.
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