The Weekly Muse #48

Eighth Place, Santa Novel, and Auroras

Hello, all:

Last week, as regular readers may recall, was the Kentucky Derby! The winner, in a dramatic photo finish was a horse called Mystik Dan (as promised, I used a name inspired by the winner in the following episode of 2.17 Seconds Into Never, She Went Thataway. My unofficial pick was Honor Marie: he finished 8th. Eighth is not so bad. Thunder Snow who ran in the 2017 Kentucky Derby? If you watch the below video, Thunder Snow is the horse in the back who’s just like, “Nope, nope, not gonna do this, I wanna dance! I wanna play! I wanna do my own thing! Whee!”

So, y’know. Eighth is an improvement.

Writing Update

Well, we are at 47K, still closing in on the endgame, and the dragons are coming! Also I have unexpectedly incinerated a character. I may change my mind and unincinerate him later. I’m not sure.

Also, fun fact, it occurred to me that I have a first draft floating around of a novel I wrote in college that’s, how shall I describe it, a dystopia involving Santa and superheroes, and also an evil Grinch-like creature that I would have to rename if I ever published it because I actually called a Grinch on the idea that the Grinch is a species and not just the one character?

There’s a character who is the embodiment of the Easter Bunny. Also there is something called the Sledgehammer of Love. … it didn’t occur to me until later that I probably should not have named it that.

I might need to dig that up and run that, what’d you think?

Closing Time

I did not see the auroras last night. Too cloudy. Thanks to some phone wizardry my wife got some really good pictures! Here’s one of them!

Until next time,

Michael