
Through An Open Window
Last week I blogged about my characters’ heroes. This week, one of my characters takes it a step further. In Bianca’s surreal encounter with her hero, Frida Kahlo, fact and fiction intersect; Frida’s lines are her own words. A large palette splotched with color encircled Frida like a giant hoop skirt. Bianca was at her desk, dipping an old-fashioned quill pen into an ink well and drawing lines across a scroll of parchment. Grasping a stiff-bristled detail brush, Frida made