Haunted Mirror

These are the sort of things you create and try not to think about what profound throughts you could have been thinking if you'd resisted the urge...
Guess the tributes!       [not really. spare yourself the "What If?" agonies of wasted time.]

Rainbows on bubbles and great winged horses
Snowdays with Tumnus and werewolf keen noses
Gamboling kitsune, sly leprechauns
My favorite illusions, once seen and they're gone

Kings born in exile with old broken sabres
Changelings and deep wells and candles and prayers
Angry steep mountains with snow to hunt dwarves
Mad wives in attics and those fey secret drawers

Time full of wrinkles, impossible heroes
Wrestling with Grendel and magical bureaus
Avatars running from demigod des'ny
My fav'rite illusions are running away with me.

Alphabets forming from thornbush and briars
Phookas that prefer to ride on two tires
Redheads, tea, dragons, elves, shoes, steel, owls, rain
Here let me tell you my favorites again...


Hint: I cheated.

So, this instead of finishing another major edit on Beastly. I will scoping out new guinea pigs predictably later than I like and sooner than is good for you.

Today I got it together to start a new document on my computer.

It is Portentious. It is Fraught with Danger. It is Courageous and Bold.

It is...
    Chapter Four, starting on page 69 of my manuscript, destined to be The True Beginning.

Or so I am deliberating the possibility of making it. It means actual new writing. I'm not probably going to do that today, but I've looked at the first page or so, to know what I need to work with. I've copied over a significant chunk into which I need to subtly retrace 70 pages worth of world building, establishment of character, and Pivotal Plot Establishment.

To end on an upswing:
    What a relief!          I get to liking the idea more and more as I think about it. I knew it, I knew it!