My new tiger-keeping neighbors

Oct 29, 2021 9:16 pm

Sometimes life imitates art

My work in progress, Kit Melbourne Book Ten, is taking longer than expected because I moved house this month. The ironic thing is that Kit also moved house in the new book, and when I had her do that I did not yet have a plan of copying her. Kit is bogged down with all the stress that comes with getting used to a different life in a more rural setting and so am I. Kit has to deal with neighbors digging tiger traps, long-simmering family feuds, arson, and a liger that may or may not be AWOL. So far I just have to deal with light switches that don't work and mysterious odors in appliances.

I did have an unusual experience in that there's a light that appears to only come on when I come up the stairs. That is, after it's turned on, it flickers off when I'm not there and turns on again when I came up the stairs. I said out loud, "well, that's friendly," just in case it was a ghost who could be appeased by amicable overtures. I don't believe in ghosts, but I also sort of do. I am listening to fewer ghost story podcasts because so many of them begin with a family that moves into a new house ... and then horrible things happen. Better not tempt fate.

I've been thinking about the scene in Witch's Jewel when Kit moves in with Elaina to the basement apartment and how Elaina puts down shelf paper before putting her glasses in the cupboard. That's a totally tidy and reasonable thing that I would like to have done but simply could not be bothered with. When Susan moves house in Mulberry Wands, she's drug into it kicking and screaming, despite the new house being in every way better, because she hates change. I think I'm somewhere between the two. I'm excited about the new while also anxious about the things I won't have any more. So far, it's going a lot easier for me than it is for Kit in Book Ten, since warlock vampires are not after me (as far as I know) but I don't want to jinx myself.

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