Oh, deer

Do you know what I see when I read about a deer shifter?

This!

  

Written is the Best Word Ever

I’ve been writing. When I manage 1000 words a day I’m happy – if I do this several days in a row I’m ecstatic.  Just writing seems to push the story forward.

With Muffled Drum I have a very rough outline, which is unusual enough—but what actually happens from scene to scene is very much up to the fingers and I like what’s happening. Which is just as well.

Anyway – story is now up to 6,000 words.

Why I set the damned thing in Europe/Prussia, I really don’t know.  Well, I do, a bit, because of the pretty uniforms, but now I’ve pulled one of my protags out of the army entirely and he’s wandering—and I know NOTHING about the times, arghle. I see research in my tomorrow… Note to self. Pretty uniforms are not a good enough reason to set a story in a period you know nothing about. However… you managed the English Civil War and they didn’t even HAVE pretty uniforms!!

A snippet I hear you ask?  (ok – perhaps i was hearing things… ) but here you go.

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