Category: PARANORMAL

  • DTD — 567 words, and my hero revisits a memory

    Sam remembers something that happened in his past. It doesn’t sound like much, but It was. It gave me huge insight into the character, and allowed me to introduce a tiny slice of his extraordinary past into the story. It was a reflective bit, too… pacing-wise, a moment away from what has to this point…

  • DTD — 356 Words, and a shocker

    Writing along, writing along, and suddenly there’s another dead body in my path, and it would solve the two deaths upstairs…except the dead guy had nothing to do with it. I’m feeling my way through this story, and events are building nicely. How’re you doing?

  • DTD — 619, and Twisty Little Plot

    Agh. Frustrating. I got the coolest plot twist tonight—one of those beautiful inspirational Muse things that you just love to have fall on your head—and I can’t say a word about it because it would be a HUGH spoiler. But writing was Really Big Fun tonight, as witness the fact that I got a bit…

  • DTD — 303 words, and a leak in the system

    My detectives were beaten to a witness they needed by someone who didn’t want her to talk. The circumstances suggest someone close to them may be working for the bad guys. Scene bit tonight went well. I apologize for my scarcity in the WABWM comments. Margaret and I are setting up the infrastructure for How…

  • DTD — 484, and the start of Contagion

    I wrapped the scene with Mike and Aleksa at the dig…it took off in an interesting direction. Apparently Mike has other things going wrong in his life besides the forged artifact buried in his site, something Aleksa noticed that I hadn’t. Interesting the way characters play off of each other. And I started Contagion, the…

  • DTD — 318 words

    It’s been a long, long day. I got words, I figured out a nice twist for my archeologists, and I’m confounding them with the absolute absence of enemies who might want to trash their reputations by planting a badly faked relic. But I’ve got to get some sleep. How about you?

  • DTD — 320 words, and some research

    Being too tired does not do great things for the words. I plugged along on my scene tonight, doing a bit of character development, tossing in some plot, and a bit of conflict… and I scrouged for a bit more information on the Minoans. It’s hard to come by. I got what I needed, and…

  • DTD — 466 words, and the Ohio hills of my childhood

    I remember the heat of Ohio summer, and the way the leaves of the oaks and maples in the hills hung heavy on the trees, dusty green and tired. The dirt back roads, the damp, cool sandstone outcrops in the steep hills, the cicadas with their buzzing racket, and me lying in the tall grass…

  • DTD — 518, and Aleksa meets Maggie

    Sort of a fun scene bit today. Maggie, a college senior working her summer on a mediocre dig in Ohio, shows up to pick up Aleksa from the airport. I enjoyed watching the two of them talk around each other as Aleksa tried to figure out if her old friend Mike had finally found someone,…

  • DTD — 473, and Just Can’t Be

    Tired and have a headache, but did get the words. Mostly, I was wrapping up the scene in which my hero discovered that the rash of suicides are all connected to someone he knew well—and hated—in his past. But I also got back to Aleksa, who is on her way to a dig being run…