Category: Last Girl Dancing

  • My Ghost Just Came to Life for Me

    Something supernatural that I hadn’t planned just clicked: it’ll tighten the story; add layers; create a gorgeous bit of mystery and suspense. And it was right there in front of me the whole time, but I didn’t see it until just this minute. Hah! AND I just checked and I’ve already done more than forty…

  • Theme

    Thinking out loud … First theme — Finding a new dream when Life destroys the most cherished dream What else? Living a life that matters Good versus evil … but that’s basic. Combating obsession? Maybe. Finding a way to put important obsessions into a perspective that will allow a life, too? Maybe. There’s more here.…

  • Today’s Task: Kill People I Like

    I somehow managed not to make the couple of on-stage murders in LGD personal enough. And Robin (my agent) was fierce. "We have to care about them. We have to love them." And she was right, of course. So today, my job is to take essentially faceless victims, and give myself a reason to cry…

  • About twenty pages

    Didn’t get the forty pages of revision I’d hoped for, but did get through twenty. Good enough.

  • Writing at this ridiculous hour

    Brief update. We made it through Ivan just fine. We got a lot of rain, a lot of wind, and one tree limb down, but Frances was much harder on us. I’ve had a few unwelcome days off following that — have been sick. Bleh. But this morning I have insomnia, which may be a…

  • First Snippet from Last Girl Dancing Posted

    Here’s the setup. Jess has been pulled from her own unit to work with the Homicide Special Cases Unit, and has found out that she’ll be helping track down a serial killer specializing in exotic dancers. She’s about to find out the details of her assignment.

  • Forty Pages of Revision

    Today, post-hurricane, post-tension-and-anxiety, things FINALLY started to click with LGD. Got the first forty pages revised, cleared out about ten pages of deadwood, wrote roughly five new pages.

  • Tornado and Flood Watches

    We have both tornado and flood watches right now. Have a bad band about to hit us. But this is nothing compared to what we would have gotten had the earlier tracks proven right. I’m grateful. And working on LGD today.

  • Veering Westward with Ivan

    As the hurricane continues its slow creep westward, we’re getting a little more hopeful. Because of the size of the thing and its direction, we’re not out of the woods — the right side of the storm gets the worst of the winds, and that’s what we’ll have. Still, not having the eye mow directly…

  • Not Writing, But At Least Thinking

    Hurricane has turned, so any hope that the thing would miss us entirely is probably now gone. Today I gave myself a break, slept in a little, and acknowledged that there are some circumstances under which it�s damned near impossible to be creative. Am worried about finding photos, finding baby books (the two I still…