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In the course of consulting with Frost, which will be a significant aspect of Mrs. Hawking 6, I want the useful insight that Frost contributes to come with the danger of being exposed to her influence. Mrs. Hawking is not doing great emotionally at this point (hasn't been for a long time now) and is really susceptible to Frost pouring poison in her ear. When she's feeling like this, Hawking wants someone's permission to give in to her pessimism and worst impulses, which Mrs. Frost is happy to do, and push away Mary and Nathaniel, who want to encourage her to work to be better.
If I write them right, the Hawking-Frost scenes should be some of the best parts of part 6. I feel like we've gotten so little interaction between these two powerful figures, our superhero and our supervillain, that we're kind of hungry for it at this point. I really need to execute on that huge amount of promise. Things are still rough yet, but I believe with some editing I can do it.
As a side note, "Dear Boss" is currently the closest I've gotten to settling upon a title for this thing. It was the salutation to one of the (most likely fake) Ripper letters sent to the newspapers, known because of it today as the "Dear Boss" letter. Mrs. Frost will satirically call Mrs. Hawking by that name throughout the piece, which I like because it has a similar quality of a villain taunting the person tasked with stopping them. It also gets to the thematically relevant notions of Mrs. Hawking's role as an authority figure in Mary and Nathaniel's lives and the impact how she's inhabited that role has had. I'm still not totally sold on it, though, for two reasons. One, I find it doesn't really roll off the tongue, and two, I don't love using the same naming convention as a much more famous Ripper story, "From Hell"— which also comes from one of these letters.
( Day #7 - She Could Be Everything )
If I write them right, the Hawking-Frost scenes should be some of the best parts of part 6. I feel like we've gotten so little interaction between these two powerful figures, our superhero and our supervillain, that we're kind of hungry for it at this point. I really need to execute on that huge amount of promise. Things are still rough yet, but I believe with some editing I can do it.
As a side note, "Dear Boss" is currently the closest I've gotten to settling upon a title for this thing. It was the salutation to one of the (most likely fake) Ripper letters sent to the newspapers, known because of it today as the "Dear Boss" letter. Mrs. Frost will satirically call Mrs. Hawking by that name throughout the piece, which I like because it has a similar quality of a villain taunting the person tasked with stopping them. It also gets to the thematically relevant notions of Mrs. Hawking's role as an authority figure in Mary and Nathaniel's lives and the impact how she's inhabited that role has had. I'm still not totally sold on it, though, for two reasons. One, I find it doesn't really roll off the tongue, and two, I don't love using the same naming convention as a much more famous Ripper story, "From Hell"— which also comes from one of these letters.
( Day #7 - She Could Be Everything )
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