Yesterday, I just couldn't stand it anymore. I sat down, opened up a blank file, and started writing
Heroine Souls, the next Dove San Cioni story. Muse had been playing with it on the sides, tempting me, and dammit I did pass 50,000 words in
Caprice Starr, the story's a heck of a mess, and I kinda know what Chapter
9 10 is going to be about, but right now I'm a little burned out after 45 days straight.
I needed some
comfort writing. Muse delivered, in spades. I've been struggling to write Caprice, struggling to do 1,000 words a day. I haven't made it every day. Apparently, just writing porn with familiar themes of neurotic characters dealing with emotional situations is my comfort writing, because in two days I did almost 7,000 words. It's just (1) set-up: show Dove and the Twins settling in toward the end of their first year together. Domestic bliss of a sort, with long and involved threesome sex scene. Be affirmative about their affection for one another and how the infatuation is wearing off but the relationship is still working. (2) conflict: Dove's mothers show up, and Dove's conflict is immediate. For the past year, she's been able to pretend that she doesn't
need their affirmation. Now she has to either prove she doesn't need it, or earn it. Or both. Or something in the middle. Show an attempt at make up; show Dove and the Twins having Bad Sex. (3) resolution: someone makes a decision. Something important and significant to the story, even to the series. Dove and the Twins have make-up sex that's better and more meaningful.
(Actually, I have one very strong idea for how the story will end, and it's one of those things that's got my brain twonked: the Twins come to an understanding about human/robot relationships that might turn the whole idea of the Encompassment over, or it might affirm just how important the Encompassment was, or it might just be unique to them and Dove. Whatever it is, it's
different from Purpose as it's been understood in the Journal Entries, it's a more mature kind of relationship between Dove and the Twins. My problem is that it's such a unique problem to the Journal Entries, even if I am trying to write my way around the whole issue of 'friendly AIs', that I'm afraid
no one else will get it.)
Muse was so deliriously happy the past two days that she cheered and gleed and then said, "I've got three more for you! You know your catgirl/catboy universe?"
"The yowlerverse? Yah?"
"How about you write one set in the late 1970s? What would yowlers be like then? Disco! Cocaine! Catnip!" She giggled.
"Okay, it's silly. I like it. And?"
"How about one set today, in Seattle? You could write about the
chill. Send a catboy to the club."
"Okay, but... where's the angle?" She leaned over and whispered in my ear, "Remember Andrea? The Vogue, 1998?"
I paused for a moment, and remembered, and said, "Oh. Oh, oh! You're an evil girl!" She giggled. "Okay," I said, "What's the third?"
"A catgirl works at Pike Place Market, at one of the fishmongers. Not the flying fish place, how about the clam place across the way?"
"And?"
"You're the writer, you figure it out."
"Muse!"
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