Good Night

It’s late. I was sidetracked today on my manuscript read, by a talk with my Dramaqueen editor. It lasted longer than I anticipated.

I did manage to script some of a side project I started with an online friend, but then got sidetracked again on the phone with another friend. :/ It’s 11 and I’m tired—but I will write this scene out, in the morning.

Necrophilia isn’t easy to write; not even if you try combining it with something you find sexy. The scene that follows is much easier for me, because it’s a simple chase and rape. Out of the frying pan so they say. I don’t know what is more sad, but I’m trying to determine which scene I most aroused by?  What does that say about me?

Damn, I’m breaking the first rule of erotica…I’M THINKING TOO MUCH.

This came to Laura by way of Cat, who lives in Houston Texas -

Goodnight…

Morning Mission.

I got ‘Lost Along The Way’ back from the copy-editor and will be looking over it today during my son’s doctor appointment. I did manage to get some feedback from Casey about ‘Lost’,

as in Only Words, your most interesting character (Sash) is supporting when he probably should’ve been the protagonist.

Hmmm. Does that happen to anyone else out there? Sometimes your main hero isn’t the most interesting character and it ends up coming out in your prose. This happens to me often; I’m going to go out of my way to make sure this doesn’t happen in ‘Burn Me Naked’, ‘Whore of Turfan’, or ‘Cataldo’. I often get attached to a character, especially when he’s not my hero, and then I run with that character until his personality and goals overshadow my main character. *fail*

I just want to say, for the record: Easy-Set pools are NOT EASY. >_< My kids are spending the weekend with me while their dad moves their stuff up to Dallas, and so I thought—I’ll set up a 21ft pool in the back, no problem. After all they look so easy to set up, right? 0_o

I’m in what is considered the Hill Country of Texas. Nothing is flat and one foot down into the dirt you hit solid limestone. I’m not exaggerating; you know how in ground pools all try to tell you about their deals down here starting at $30,000…this NEVER includes digging cost. To ‘dig’ your pool anywhere north of Austin, you’ll have to tack on another $20,000 to $30,000 grand for rock excavation and removal. Your in ground poll ends up costing near $60,000 and it’s not a home-improvement in Texas…it’s considered ‘recreational construction’. :/ So I wasn’t putting in an in-ground at the Leander address. I can’t afford $60,000 that I wont make back if I ever sell this place. I can afford a paltry $280.99 on a 21ft East-Set. Easy, it is not. First, you have to dig—you have to get rid of the grass, dig enough to flatten the soil out, lay dirt to make it all even, buy an extra tarp because the one they give you is TINY, landscape around it so it doesn’t look like you live in Perry County —so this requires pond stones and rubber casing to protect the pool edges. Oh, and I bought a salt-water pump to attach to the water-filter they give you, because I ain’t spending a fortune all summer on pool chemicals because summer here end around the last week of October...yep, we can swim well into October. All spent: about $900 [the tarp, stones, soil, salt-pump system, and pool]. I think it’ll work.

Time to roll.