#which is itself a joke based on the way real cats occasionally just spazz and go running from a room

[muffinlance]

My mom just started reading Fox’s Tongue and Kirin’s Bone after I raved to her about it lol.

She’s four pages in and she wants to know if the way people sometimes use the phrase “met death” had anything to do with sparking the idea for this story? (As in, “he met his death walking down king street” or “she met her death in November”)

That is EXACTLY where the initial premise came from. I overthought the phrase one day, and here we are. <3

#trivia: the first draft initially had a much different plot #the Late Wake were all witches with familiars #Aaron would have had a cat because they can see Death too #which is itself a joke based on the way real cats occasionally just spazz and go running from a room #yes my furry children #run from your Death and chase ghosts #which is absolutely what child!me casually assumed they were doing #fox's tongue and kirin's bone #anyway that's when I finally learned to Outline The Damn Book #so as to know where the heck one's cool premise was going before you're half way in and going This Is Terrible #(it really was) #(I literally scraped everything past chapter one and rewrote from there)