The Night the Cat Came Home
Jun. 14th, 2011 05:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caper_estKiller-Kate and Luke Lackland: 780 words, concluding the Night Without Stars, and the chapter, and the long arc of the Rising. The Red Tiger sleeps.
Two more chapters that make the Bonfire Arc, and then the Epilogue. Now to begin the chapter of Mother and Son, and bring the political and family conflicts to their final crisis. My first job is now to re-read all the matter that led up to the Four Agenda Pile-Up, and get back into my head just what everybody was trying to do to everybody else when Kate set off for Langdale.
The conclusion I know already: it's one of those scenes I've been waiting all book to write.
Meanwhile, another Kateverse folksong has bubbled out of wherever these things bubble out of, singing tekeli-li-nonny all the day and so forth. The Ballad of Clare the Crafty tells of the great deed of Luke's smarter elder sister, twenty years back - if you call representing the Gordian Knot as a washing-line 'telling'. It's always fascinating to see how making something sound like a song people actually sing, can smooth all the characters and truths down into the Same Old Mould.
Two more chapters that make the Bonfire Arc, and then the Epilogue. Now to begin the chapter of Mother and Son, and bring the political and family conflicts to their final crisis. My first job is now to re-read all the matter that led up to the Four Agenda Pile-Up, and get back into my head just what everybody was trying to do to everybody else when Kate set off for Langdale.
The conclusion I know already: it's one of those scenes I've been waiting all book to write.
Meanwhile, another Kateverse folksong has bubbled out of wherever these things bubble out of, singing tekeli-li-nonny all the day and so forth. The Ballad of Clare the Crafty tells of the great deed of Luke's smarter elder sister, twenty years back - if you call representing the Gordian Knot as a washing-line 'telling'. It's always fascinating to see how making something sound like a song people actually sing, can smooth all the characters and truths down into the Same Old Mould.
