Beloved Readers, I have a rule.

I didn't quite realize it until a few weeks ago, but I've been writing by this rule since I seriously picked up writing as a craft somewhere in the neighborhood of 2004. A rule first introduced to me by The Last Unicorn and later fully codified by Princess Mononoke for all characters, but especially for all villains and antagonists. A simple rule by design, if not always in practice.

Reader, I do not write monsters.

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Chapter six of The Silver Standard is almost done! Just one more scene. And a half.
Right now, it looks like this.

It's actually one of the neatest pages in the draft.

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