Category: new novel

Sep 28

And I’m back………

Part One

I’ve been writing again, and everything is right in the world…well almost, Angie is still otherwise involved with some hag from El Salvador–if I were not so vehemently pro-immigration, I would have ICE on speed dial–

SO I am working on Leda and the Swann, the book that still does not have a proper title, or maybe it does…hhhmmm.

I have not been super productive because of work, my mother announcing that she is an alcoholic, my father returning home from the Talil, and those days when I just want to shut up in my room and listen to Toni Braxton’s Unbreak My Heart on repeat–but I have kind of revamped the story (Awlready?) by removing the problem with the main character, Tinsley”s job and her hot boss Sandra and resurrected the dead ex-wife who wants to get back together and is very nosy and jealous. Yeah, I know it kind of mirrors what I am going through myself, and yes, I know it is kind of sick to write my life into a novel, but hey, I’m a writer, I’m allowed to do this sort of thing. And I will.  So there.

The writing has not exactly been flowing, but the muse has returned, dressed in a chiffon prom dress, and a fedora, while treading barefoot on rose petals. I know because she makes me want to write at 6 in the morning when my alarm does not go off until 7, and other inopportune moments.  She also shows up during my rare interactions with Angie, distracting me from  my real world issues.  Oh, how I love you muse.

And now, Unbreak My Heart by Toni Braxton…she was the shit back in the day…

Part two:

I have a new friend…a real life one. I don’t think I have ever made a friend outside of work or who was not Angie’s friend since my first year of college. We both like Guitar Hero, and awesome movies like Resident Evil. She also cracks me up. She is interested in writing and she is one of the few who had actually read my thought crimes here on the internet.

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May 25

A new novel: Working title………Leda and the Swann

Giovanni Rapiti's Leda and the Swan

With all the millions of things I have to do this summer; find a teaching position, lose some weight, write the synopsis for Gloaming Hill, and manage four beta readers, I have began to scribble notes for novel number 11. The working title is from the main characters and a Greek myth that has always intrigued me. Anyway, I would like to do something different with this book and document it’s entire creation starting with my disjointed thoughts that progress into trailer-like scenes in my head. I won’t go into detail of what the book is about just yet, ’cause I don’t want to jink it.

Here is an example,

Chapter 8: At the station she is put in a drunk tank where she has to sit and talk to a mental health professional. She goes home around dawn, cries in the shower and gets dressed for work. She goes into her office and loses herself in her work. Leda shows up and Tinsley refuses to talk to her, not sure if she imagined everything from the night before and the previous day and is losing her mind. As they talk her boss comes in and talks to both her and Leda, Tinsley realizes that she is not a figment of her imagination. Then she notices how especially trampy Leda is dressed and get embarrassed.

“How dare you show up at my job?”
“Sorry about that Tin Tin.”
“Don’t fucking call me that. You don’t have the right.”
Leda is taken aback. She says she has come in peace. Tinsley tells her to leave or she will call security.
“So you’re just going to go back to your life. After what you’ve seen.”
“I certainly am. Go torture someone else.”
Leda tells her to come to the house later if she wants and to bring the pictures.
“Not likely,” Tinsley says.
Leda leaves.

That’s all I’m posting for now because Angie’s home and we’re about to have dinner : )
I’m getting really productive with this blog thing.

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