Here we are again, believe it or not! I actually wrote a couple of pages on my WIP this week, though it's still going appallingly slowly. Last night I began the eminently creepy (at least so far) Dead Before Dark by Wendy Corsi Staub. Here are the first few sentences:
They called him the Night Watchman.
Back in the late sixties, he stole into women's homes after dark on nights when the moon was full and they were alone. He slaughtered them--and always left an eerie calling card at the crime scene.
The authorities never publicly revealed what it was.
I seem to be having a hard time holding thoughts/characters/events in my head, so a lot of this past week has been spent gathering notes on the stuff I've already written so I have it in one spot for when I need it later. You know--what's this guy's brother's name, where does he work, etc. More on that in a later post.
But here are a few sentences I did manage to write:
Cal Wilkes looked painfully young, probably no more than twenty-five or twenty-six, with tousled blond hair and wide gray eyes. He’d have to take the role of “good cop” in any interrogation.
And you? How's your writing going? Your reading? Let us know where to find your two sentences and we'll edit this post throughout the day.
- Leah J. Utas has more characters I'd like to meet on her blog.
- Barbara Martin has mysterious men on her blog.
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9 comments:
Yay~ At least you wrote something, I'm having a very difficult time writing my thoughts out. My ideas flow so rapidly and all based on my dreams. However by the time I woke up, I already forgot the details of my dream. It's so frustrating.
I'm working on a story with some "tousled blond hair' also. But, of course, it's bloodied. Anyway, enjoyed your lines as always.
I already feel for him for having to be the good cop.
I've posted my sentences at my place.
Laura, very creepy book you're reading. Police everywhere keep "keys" to the crimes.
Though in your sentences, maybe there's a twist: good cop plays bad.
Sometimes its difficult to get a sense of a character until the writing starts. I have a basic type in mind when I begin, adding characteristics as the story progresses. A character from my dark fantasy series, Odin, had one of his quirks changed during a rewrite to fit in with behaviour exhibited later in the manuscript.
My sentences are up this week.
My muse has left me. (Probably got pissed off because I was spending too much time doing other things and not paying enough attention to her)
Great sentences on your part, Laura. Very descriptive!
I like your sketch of Cal.
Bravo for doing that plot and character housekeeping. My novel-length idea is kind of complicated and I don't know how I'm going to keep it straight without some documentation like that. It may feel like backtracking, but I think it can smooth your path forward. After this, I'm sure the MS will fly like a greased skink!
I'm reading stuff on quantum physics and "entanglement" as it relates to psychic remote viewing (I require such things for my fantasy, or is it scifi), and I won't inflict that upon you, but here's some new stuff from my short:
As usual, a small group of men were idling outside, smoking and drinking doctored Gatorade, commenting while young women in tight clothes pushed their strollers by. "The Knicks jersey's a cop or something."
天魔星 -
You are so not alone in that. I wish I knew a way to record what goes on in my dreams while they are happening!
David -
Well, of course it is! Heheheh.
I love your 'would have to take the role of good cop in any interrogation." Good stuff.
I've been in a deep hole with work and could paste in some user instructions if you really cared to hear, but I haven't even been reading.
Note that my blown appearance has calmed a bit in this photo. You know how it is, one needs a change now and again...I'll be back to storm tossed anon.
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