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Snow

Snow in my backyard

I have a bit of a religion about snow.

Even when I moved to Seattle, years ago, snow was rarer here than in the Midwest. I wrote three short stories in a row about snow. I’ve written a couple of stories about (not quite) freezing to death in the snow since. The second book in the septet, The Deer Stalker, has a significant set of scenes set near Snoqualmie Pass, in the snow.

This year, my neighborhood has gotten nearly no snow.

But this evening, it’s snowing.

It had to wait to Imbolc, but it’s snowing.

The stuff in the air in the photo is flying snowflakes.

Final stretch

Calendar showing days checked off

I’ve now written 24,000 words, give or take a hundred, in four weeks.

I feel the arc of the book bending to a close, though there’s still a lot of scenes to write. I’m not a tight outliner; I keep a flow chart and notes, but I try to give the characters free rein if they want to take another path.

We’ve turned the wheel of the year past winter solstice. Today is a brilliantly sunny day: time out of time, definitely a December day and yet all sun.

Soteira

Statue of Hekate

Hekate Soteira means Hekate savior. The Neoplatonists saw her as the mediator between the realm of the undying gods and that of mortals. Celestial in this aspect, she forms a boundary between the worlds.