A Little Touch of Katy in the Night

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:03:47 GMT

300 words, and a relief to write as the Gordian knot of the main plot tightens. Rumour of Katy Elflocks, of childbirth changed out of wreck to joy, of bullies fleeing home on an hour's notice with faces sick as old cheese by moonlight. The grand struggle between Good Witch and Big Bad continues on levels neither we nor my protagonists can see or follow - but here they get a glimpse of it, as before Luke glimpsed the curse and the doom. For where there is Katy, there will be random acts of sensible kindness, though her life and her cause must ride the hazard. She is not at all a safe person to follow.

But beneath the great folk's notice, the little lanes of Allingdale begin to echo with her.

And it turns out, much to my surprise, that there is strange method in this madness of doing the things Katy would certainly do anyway. This could prove Rather Important before the end.

One of the best things this journalling does for my writing is to make me think a third time about everything after I've told it.

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A Little Touch of Katy in the Night