dreams and writing

[cornerofmadness]

But before either, check out this from the Onion, sadly it took a second to even realize it was the onion because well this IS my experience with students today

I had a helluva night (and right into a migraine/nausea all day thing). I woke up at 0 dark thirty to pee and couldn't get back to sleep. When I finally did it was an elaborate dream. evil_little_dog and I were somewhere at a bed and breakfast. I was calling my dad to tell him about it since we were supposed to be in England but we had made a side trip to Italy (and we still didn't have much money because we were in a dodgy B&B). I didn't know it was a B&B at first but the wife was digging in the garden outside our window and I said that looked like fun. She replied, I'm just taking care of the family graves and sure enough several elaborate headstones were in the garden. I said ELD and I would LOVE to help. She didn't answer. Shortly after that she put a baby on my windowsill. It was in old fashioned clothing and just stood there looking at me before falling off the sill before I could help it. It didn't cry,just looked up and me then crawled off before vanishing. I questioned the woman but she didn't answer.

I found ELD in a big communal bathroom brushing her teeth but she didn't care about the baby. The man of the house showed up and helped me to brush but the toothpaste was hard like solidied agar jello and just as brightly covered. I spat it in the trough sink which was plugged up with more of that toothpaste and for some reason, olive loaf. Don't ask me. Olive loaf, no lie.

Then ELD and I split up. We were leaving but I wanted to get a gift for mom who would never forgive me for not getting her murano glass if I was in Italy. Now the B&B was a convoluted rambling ancient hotel with rays going everywhere. All I could find was Chinese tourist trap glass. As I was going around looking for my souvenier and ELD, I see this guy come flying past me and hear gun shots. This very tall, skinny man of African descent runs up in Mal's jacket from Firefly only steampunked out. He had a pair of golden wire cutters in his hand and he called it a 'lucky star' and it shot out these things that looked like carnivorous origami. He didn't seem to care that I saw him.

Next thing I know they aren't me to make me take a lucky star. I run like hell and end up outside in an oak grove around the place, still running but collateral damage was getting horrible. People all over were getting tagged instead of me. I then say either kill me or let me go. They give me the golden wire cutters and say go kill ELD or die. I went and hunted down ELD (sorry!).

I did hear back from Harper Voyager. A big no just as expected but hey, I see some very promising new agents so now I can do that and I might still have time for Amazon's breakthrough novel (not sure on that).

Speaking of writing. Check out this. What's in my head story wise (and if you like any of it, talk to me about it. You know I want to talk about it!!

Current flood of story ideas.

1. The steampunk short story. I wish I knew more than I did about this because I’m really excited by the idea of it. I know it’s set in the late 1800’s naturally, in the Hyde Park area of NY. (i.e. Roosevelt, Rockefeller etc.) Victor is called to the house after the lady of the house is found dead, murdered. As he investigates, he is in close contact with the lady’s brother in law, Abraham who is head of the family. He’s a widower with kids and more interested in his inventions than he is the family business (fur trading, probably something else along those lines). He and Victor do hook up but that’s about all I know. Frighteningly little.

2. The dystopia short story. I know it will hook into the whole ‘ancient aliens’ thing. The aliens return to see how we’re doing and with our usual paranoia/aggression/omg it’s against GOD, reactions, we start a fight. We lose in a big way. The aliens feel sorry and the story is set about 50 years or so after the war when we’re recovering. The aliens are sort of like the Greys but not quite (taller, thinner, owing some things to the garuda). They can interbreed with humans (and you can imagine how some people react to that). I know the aliens have elongated heads (which explains the various head binding groups in ancient history, like the Mayan who were emulating their deities). I think the love interest will be a young doctor and his female partner (not the love interest) and a half bred guard who they have to work with after several people go missing.

3. The YA m/m story that’s been in my head for a while (well it’s been dilly dallying back and forth sexuality wise but I’m thinking it would be best as m/m). It told me the ending today on the way to Chillicothe. I’ve known for about2 years I wanted to have a character who was going to be sacrificed but I never knew why. Today they informed me that their goddess is a very interactive one. Centuries before after a war between the north and south she cut off the abundance of the world then she built a temple in the far north that could only be opened with a particular pattern. She’s given that pattern to the south and they would have to mend fences but since they haven’t spoken any more than absolutely necessary, neither realize this and even the north has forgotten almost) the temple. The south tattoos the pattern on anyone born with a special, dangerous magic (not sure what type yet) and keep that person drugged and imprisoned until it’s time to use the tattoo. Unfortunately they think the goddess meant for them to kill the person and she would restore their world. After so many sacrifices, they’ve almost lost hope but don’t know what else to do. The magic is always born into the ruling family and it’s the eldest son this time. He naturally doesn’t want to be sacrificed and manages to escape. It’s the guard sent after him who turns into the love interest. I know exactly how it ends. I should actually just WRITE the ending first (which would be a first for me).

4. I want to go crazy and write a full length incubus novel. I have incubus short stories but I would love to work with a morally ambiguous protagonist. I think in this case he wants to be good. He’s trying to be good (working on the premise that devils were once angels before the fall though spreading religious far beyond the Judeo-Christian limits). He wants to be first person but in this case I think third would be better because I would like an equal partner in this as opposed to the Scooby Gang. She would be a witch and…something, not sure what. Maybe this world is more magically orientated. The FBI has a magic branch or something (that would mean one less character) Her friend would be a female reverend (mostly because it would interest me as to what a woman of God would do when presented with a living sex doll. And yes he’s pretty. I could (and he will) present all kinds of science papers supporting physical beauty does matter in many species not just humans. So he’ll be what I find pretty at any rate. And all sexuality is good with him. However, I do NOT want to write this as erotica (I could, probably would get published faster really but I want to leave that to the imagination and concentrate on the rest of the storyline)


And two stories I started and want to get back to (Ignoring both Blood Red Roulette (vampires in Vegas) and this year’s Nano Soldiers of the Sun). Both are m/m erotica.

1. Nine’s story. Fantasy but almost steampunk since there are at least gas lights and trains. Nine’s a male prostitute who is in the right place right time to save Reko (court mage) and the princess he’s guarding. He gets swept up in the action. What’s delayed this was nano and then reading a post about men in m/m erotica (I think the writer was a straight, gay-accepting man to be honest but I could be wrong) where he mentioned that the Cinderella story didn’t work with men because they were so class conscious. Now you cannot categorically say that about well, categorical statements are often just too narrow. Reko, for that matter, will not give in to Nine until he has set him on a path to free himself and start s him out to be a healer (magical). That will eventually close the class gap. But it was enough to give me pause.

2. Dark Side (tentative title) sort of my homage to things like Hellboy. Gideon is a cambion, a half demon, half human. It’s alternative history in so much that humans know about demons and have demon hunting groups but it’s current day and most things are very much similar. Raised to be mild mannered, Gideon is isolated and bullied (because if he stands up to them he might be punished/killed and worse, his adoptive father will also be punished). A new student transfers on base in the last year of college (technically not YA, Gideon is 21). And everything changes from there. Gideon has found someone who accepts him for what he is (and while he is bisexual he wants no pregnancy risks because of what he is). I can see three books in this one, book 1 is missing a villain which is why I haven’t done much. It does end on a bitter not with Gideon following in the footsteps of many dark heroes (looking at you Dresden and Angel) leaving his lover to protect him (once he realizes Lucifer is actually paying attention to him). Book 2 brings them back together again as Gideon faces the group that played a hand in his birth. His mother was given to Lucifer by the cult leaders, her parents. Gideon tries to run a sting on them. Things don’t go quite as planned and he finds himself part of granddaddy’s devil breeding plan one way or another (more than one way to jack off the demon boy apparently) Book 3, deals with the aftermath of two. Granddaddy might still be the villain


Day 10 declutter item removed- Lacy tank top Why kept - A friend gave it to me Why tossed - Realized friend would never see me in it and it’s not me. I mean there's sexy and then there's slutty and this is more or less the latter unless worn with a jacket. I have those but it has always made me look like 10 pounds of sausage in a 5 pound casing. No sense in keeping it.