Well, first, I’m pretty pissed that MA elected Scott Brown.  Really?  Really?  REALLY!

And I’m pretty psyched that Scarlet is rising so fast on Authonomy; of course, it still has a looong way to go before it ends up on the “editor’s desk”, but the support is pretty morale boosting at the moment.

In other thoughts, however, I’m feeling restless because I don’t know what i want my next project to be.  Loose hasn’t called me back to it, and Shalia is this siren song for me–I want it, I always want it because, like Tarian, there’s a deep and unraveling story that’s been written several times throughout my adolescence, so it’s a story with deep personal meaning to me, but something’s not right.  I think it’s that, after Arianna and Scarlet, my head needs a modern girl.

And, also, a boy.  Sacrilegious as it may seem, I really want to write a story with a boy’s point of view, or a very strong male character that’s not necessarily a love interest.  For that matter, after Arianna (where the whole story revolves around her marriage and love life–and personal development, but that’s just a side note) I’m really much more interested in writing a story about strong and quirky friendships…that may have a kiss or two.  What’s a novel without a smooch?

I just don’t know.  Typically I revisit all my hundreds of notebooks to inspire a new story, but i don’t have anything modern in my old books.  I could always update one of my hopeless fantasy novels into something modern, but i don’t know.

I guess I’m just waiting to be struck.

Not by a bus.  By inspiration.

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