I just flipped a coin to decide between the two titles still in the running for this novel.  Heads, Night Fire; Tails, Shadow Dance.

Flip, flip, flip

Catch–Tails.  Shadow Dance it is.

Isn’t it beautiful the comfort one can derive from such sophisticated scientific methods of problem solving?

I’m enjoying the writing of Shadow Dance very much.  It’s delightful to be working on a project which can justify a word meter, and even more fun to have a book where I can throw in as much action and crazy as I want.  I do feel a bit as if I’m riding a horse which is not quite broken, and may bolt at any time.  Tomorrow I plan to dismount for a moment and take a look at what I have.  I’m still following my outline, but there’s an awful lot of material that’s sneaking in behind my outlines back, so to speak.  It will sometime soon need dealing with, and I’d rather have a sense for what all that material adds up to and what it means to the larger story before I get down to the final chapters and need to tie up all the strings.  Or send the horse into the show ring. 😉

So here’s the word meter.  Yeah!