A few things that wouldn't have
ended up in my new novel, The Wednesday Daughters, if I hadn't traveled to England while writing it: a blue cottage door; a snowbow arcing over Windermere (which in England, means the lake); a castle that isn't really a castle; a leather patch in a manor house wood floor; three
waterfalls spilling into a single pool before flowing
under a miniature bridge - house; a coffin road; a slipper tub not in the bathroom, but evocatively at the foot of a bed.
Playing through SFII to the
end as Ryu and then seeing him shun the victor's podium, instead opting to train
under a
waterfall with the message that «the fight is everything» spoke volumes about the Japanese shotokan karate master's motivations.