Ten! Done!

     Chapter Ten of "Dion" is done. Done....done....in the can. It is such a good feeling when you pass the 10th chapter because you feel like you're 1/3 of the way finished with the book. You've done most of the important introductions of the main characters, and you've established their backgrounds so that whatever happens in the next twenty or so chapters will make a great deal of sense.

    Chapters 11-15 will be written next weekend, followed by 16-20 or 21 on March 22. This means that the book should be finished by April 10th or so. I'll read through it, send it up, and have it printed so I can have a copy in my hands by April 20th or so. Maybe by the 22nd (my dad's birthday), it can be published. If it's not ready by then, we will all survive. It's not a mandate.

    So far, I've introduced a couple of bad events in each of the two main characters' lives. I'll build on those, make things creepy and bring it all to a head. This will be fun and allow me to send one or both of them into a frenzied state of mind; pushing them over the proverbial edge even. I haven't decided if someone dies; someone usually does die in my books, but there's always a first for everything. Maybe no one dies in "Dion" even though it takes place basically in a cemetery. I just haven't decided. I will. I will get around to it.

    I did write out the plot and plans a while back. I'll skim through those plans tomorrow and throughout the week to see that I am still on track. I need to rustle up some gruesome and grotesque moments; trying to be as creepy as possible. It's really not easy going from hopeless romantic to creepy -- just so you know. It is a stretch for me. I find myself trying to censor myself, and then trying my hardest not to. I fight internally since I don't typically rely on the cruder things in life to create copy.

    Oh well, I am having fun, and I will continue to have fun. I'm determined to write a good creepy book - and that's exactly what I'm going to do. There, I said it. I will be creepy! I will no doubt rely on AI to help me...Since I can't do creep on my own, I will find a way; this, too, will happen.  After this book, I need to carry some of the creep with me to "Cask" and certainly onto the sequel "Shadow" and now...now that I think about it, I was pretty creepy in "Pinball" so yeah, I can do it on my own. I may not even need AI to nudge me...ha! So there! I am creepy when I want or need to be. Ha!

    You'd think I'd ooze creep after all the cop and murder shows I watch. It started with Perry Mason and Quincy, you know, and from there it has only blossomed. Though Midsomer Murders is an older series, I have just recently found it, and let me tell you, some of the methods they use to murder can cause my eyes to pop right out of my head -- which too, is creepy -- I think I'll write about what I see and hear from one or two of those shows. They've been doin' it for years and years.

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