Characters…Can't Live With 'em, Can't Live Without 'em

The new book (Frontier Magic, Book 2, Title To Come) is progressing slowly. Partly because of the perversity of the characters.

First, one of my important-but-offstage-for-a-while characters decided to be stingy about writing letters. With some reason, I admit, but if I can't get him started corresponding again, there's a whole great wodge of  planned-for plot later on that is going to look as if it's coming out of nowhere. Unless…hmm…now, that might work. It'll throw a monkey wrench into a bunch