The "Brit a Day" series

What does a months-long parade of attractive British men have to do with fiction, you might well ask? These gentlemen have inspired some lovely scenes, part of the life I live in my head. Over time, some of these scenes reach out to one another and begin to form a story. For the present, each one of these pictures provides a writing prompt for me, a way to keep me writing with a sense of passion and narrative, even when the stories are not yet fully formed.



Friday, April 2, 2010

A Brit a Day [#57]

Trying to find the best picture of Eddie's hands is like trying to find the loveliest coal in Newcastle--there are just so many of them. The man has gorgeous hands, and he knows how to use them to tell a story, one of them usually wrapped generously around a microphone. His long, slender fingers mimic his overall height. One of his songs, "Rusted Guns of Milan," is a bit of an ode to his own hands, though I'm not sure it started out that way.

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