Muse has been quiet the past week. I had jury duty recently and I think the whole jury thing took a lot out of both of us... even though it was actually a shorter working day, it was so different and emotionally wracking that I didn't feel like writing all week.
But she came to me last night and said, "I have this idea..." And I listened patiently, and nodded my head as she rolled out an interesting character and an interesting situation. It's a new Sterlings story set around the same time as Polestar. I took down all the notes. It's a good arc, I thought.
"But Muse," I told her, "I don't know anything about curling.