a difficult task

[cornerofmadness]

three actually

1). clean this pigsty
2) weed that garden. OMG it's like the plastic weed stopper doesn't exist and today it's 90+ with equal humidity. gross.

3) the task I had in mind when I started this post. I'm thinking of combining and updating two old short stories into one more comphrensive piece. I've mentioned these stories b efore when I asked where would you like to see them placed since they were set in New Orleans and I did sell one of them back before Poppy Brite and the countless others made that city even MORE cliched.

That magazine folded before it could see print. As I was digging in the files I realized that I still had an old cover letter and ironically enough it dated to 1996 and it was to the same editor from circlet press who bought my story this year. Is amused.

Basically about the only thing I can salvage is the dialogue and even that has to be updated since wow, some of it is comic bookish (i.e. written out dialect). New Orleans was almost a character in this. Now it'll be Vegas.

But I'll need to research things. LIke where would the wealthy vampire live? In a private suite in the hotel...not as private as he might like. In a gated community? probably better. I think Luc can be a valet for a casino (I'll ask my cousin about doing that work since that's what he does)

Wonders if there are any big citywide parties there ala Mardi Gras (which was featured in the story). I could, of coure, invent my own casino and have IT have a big annual party ...

If you have anything cool to share about a Vegas setting go nuts, let me know. thanks

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Thought No. 1: Why not have a casino based off of Mardi Gras itself? Seems to me that would be fitting with the Vegas theme.

Thought No. 2: If you go with thought no. 1, the casino could host an actual Mardi Gras at the appropriate time of the year.

[natgel.livejournal.com]

I'd help you fix the garden. I miss having a garden. Mine is made of concrete.

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

I'm hopeless at helping with 3). But last case scenario there's always little_details

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Vegas? A snap. I recommend one of the condos on the Strip (that's where Sean Patrick is buying in the next book -- penthouse, of course); there are a lot of them now, and even more being built. There are gated communities, though, but I don't know where any of them are. Not in any parts of the city I've been in.

Vegas is THE place to celebrate New Year's out here in the West. It's bigger than Times Square. (Which, in fact, you can do in Vegas, right down at New York New York -- and they do it for every time zone).

But on the whole, it's a party 24/7.