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I've been scarce lately. I think finishing Dirty Business has rendered me silent in terms of blogging and any other writing, with the exception of emails, except for the synopsis and query letter. But I am thinking about writing. All the time.

In the shower I realized the other morning that there were issues I want to address in the next Leah Ryan/Jackson Quick book that I hadn't realized I wanted to expand upon. The more I think about it, the more I want to make the next book from Jack's point of view rather than Leah's, and so consequently, Jack is throwing scenes up behind my eyes and talking to me pretty much non-stop about his history. Stuff I wasn't aware of.

Pretty interesting shit, really.

I love Jack. He's my dream friend. I love spending time on the page and in my head with him. Of course, if I were actually spending time with him in real life, I may become disenchanted before long. I'd get pissed at him cleaning up after me and generally being my conscious. But on the page and in my mind, he's perfection to me. All the flaws that make up Jackson are battle scars from his life that make him wonderful and beautiful.

I don't know if I can get his voice right. I may have to write his book in third person. Leah would spend a lot of time on the page too, of course. But this story won't be from her point of view. This one is Jack's story.

I'm excited about writing it. I have a plot loosely drawn out in my mind. But I refuse to write anything down until I have the synposis and query letter for Dirty Business finished. I'm also still scolding myself for ditching The Collectors in favor of Dirty Business, and feel like the fair and good thing to do would be to finish the damn thing.

*Sigh*

Jeff and I watched The Strangers last night. I wasn't happy with the ending. I don't think you should drag your characters through total shit and mayhem and not give the audience some kind of pay off at the end. But that's me. I think the bad guy should eventually get his/her ass kicked.

That doesn't mean that good guys can't die. It means that the villain (s) need to get theirs. Or at least be badly wounded. I don't think it's fair for a villain to get away completely Scott free.

Fading fast, so I'm signing off.

Oct 29th tomorrow. *Que spooky music* Halloween is getting closer. My little guy has his first Halloween party at his daycare tomorrow. He's so excited. I can't go because I've left early so many times in the last little while to get him when he was burning up with a fever at the daycare, and taken a half day and two full days for him being sick. I wouldn't feel right leaving early for his party :(

But Jeff is going. So at least one of us will be there :)

Have a spooky night!