Alpha Beta ooh aah
Guess that movie in four words or less.
So my story about a Alpha who loses the girl to the Beta through no one being a horrible person had a breakthrough today and it was all thanks to Snoopy. The words "it was a dark and stormy night" will be involved in the final product. I did a bit of outlining on it yesterday and had an epiphany over a very bland lunch. The fries were good, but the barbeque sauce tasted like ketchup with a little hickory smoke flavoring (artificial) added in later.
Back to the new story: Do you think I'd get sued by the Snoopy people if I named the book It Was a Dark and Stormy Night? I probably would if anybody ever bought it. I'd tell you what it's about, but then I won't write it. I still haven't put names to anyone yet. I was thinking of Lucy for the heroine, but I'm afraid of her coming off too 50s sitcom-ish. Because if I name the heroine Lucy, I may have to name the Alpha or the Beta Rick. Oh this is so wrong.... [evil grin]
I also haven't decided on the level of sexy to bring back. I'm thinking the Alpha gets hurt and Lucy (I hate typing heroine) nurses him back to health which could be used as a reason not to have smexy sexy time, but how do I sell they're in love if they don't give the bed a rattle? If it's okay for Lucy and Alpha to have sex at the beginning then have her fall in love with the Beta it would have to be erotica for the Beta to be okay with her getting all the way down with the Alpha, right? Maybe if they only had sex before she met Beta it would be okay?
I don't know. I'm still in the confused stage of the writing process if you couldn't tell.
As for all the other characters sitting in the waiting room, I feel kind of bad. Maggie and Reggie's PDA is probably getting old by now along with Gwen fighting with Nigel. Then there's Lily needing to get drunk to get naked with Max and Elaine and Dan pretending they don't know each other at work while going through 24 packs of condoms at the hotel across the street in a single week. Worst of all, poor Roxie just got all her wild abandon sexy time with Sam cut for the sake of tension. She's got to be about to break down the door of the WIP part of my brain in frustration. Sam is smokin' hot. I would know because I dreamed him up. I feel sorriest for Roxie. I had a story about a different Lucy somewhere, but she got lost in a computer move. She had a hot beat cop after her so I really wish I knew where that one was.
I should have taken off longer from work and written instead of trying to look good to the boss who doesn't care if everyone else in the office is a screw up and late all the time so long as I'm not. If I weren't a grown up and didn't have a conscience....
In other good news, I got my first approval from NetGalley to do a book review. It's a Kensington book so it should be good. I need to get something read for this week's review. I can't believe how fast this week has slipped away. I've got a ton of free reads from Pixel of Ink so I'm going to have to dive into one of those to have it ready by Saturday.
No, I haven't read all of Titanic 2012 yet. I haven't gotten past the first chapter. It was AWFUL and every page was torture to read. I've got hundreds of people waiting to torture me so why should I do it to myself? I will read more of it eventually I suppose. After I said I was going to toast the writer for bad behavior, two copies of my book sold later that day which makes me think if I say what I think, he's going to torpedo me whether my book is good or not. With all the recent sockpuppetry from the more immature out there, I don't know if I want to take the chance of ending up with 20 one star reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. I mean, no one reads my book and no one reviews it (except Ralph) so if he decides he's got nothing better to do than bury me, I'm going to get buried. His reviews are obviously sockpuppets or paid reviewers so I know he has the inclination.
Just as an aside in regards to the sockpuppetry as self promotion, I'm both happy and sad that it never occurred to me to write some reviews for myself. It never even crossed my mind to write reviews for myself which I think says something about my character. I could have had reviews, but I'm not that vain and delusional I guess. Who'd a thought that? Me, not delusional?
I better be careful. People will start to think I'm not crazy and then where will I be?
So my story about a Alpha who loses the girl to the Beta through no one being a horrible person had a breakthrough today and it was all thanks to Snoopy. The words "it was a dark and stormy night" will be involved in the final product. I did a bit of outlining on it yesterday and had an epiphany over a very bland lunch. The fries were good, but the barbeque sauce tasted like ketchup with a little hickory smoke flavoring (artificial) added in later.
Back to the new story: Do you think I'd get sued by the Snoopy people if I named the book It Was a Dark and Stormy Night? I probably would if anybody ever bought it. I'd tell you what it's about, but then I won't write it. I still haven't put names to anyone yet. I was thinking of Lucy for the heroine, but I'm afraid of her coming off too 50s sitcom-ish. Because if I name the heroine Lucy, I may have to name the Alpha or the Beta Rick. Oh this is so wrong.... [evil grin]
I also haven't decided on the level of sexy to bring back. I'm thinking the Alpha gets hurt and Lucy (I hate typing heroine) nurses him back to health which could be used as a reason not to have smexy sexy time, but how do I sell they're in love if they don't give the bed a rattle? If it's okay for Lucy and Alpha to have sex at the beginning then have her fall in love with the Beta it would have to be erotica for the Beta to be okay with her getting all the way down with the Alpha, right? Maybe if they only had sex before she met Beta it would be okay?
I don't know. I'm still in the confused stage of the writing process if you couldn't tell.
As for all the other characters sitting in the waiting room, I feel kind of bad. Maggie and Reggie's PDA is probably getting old by now along with Gwen fighting with Nigel. Then there's Lily needing to get drunk to get naked with Max and Elaine and Dan pretending they don't know each other at work while going through 24 packs of condoms at the hotel across the street in a single week. Worst of all, poor Roxie just got all her wild abandon sexy time with Sam cut for the sake of tension. She's got to be about to break down the door of the WIP part of my brain in frustration. Sam is smokin' hot. I would know because I dreamed him up. I feel sorriest for Roxie. I had a story about a different Lucy somewhere, but she got lost in a computer move. She had a hot beat cop after her so I really wish I knew where that one was.
I should have taken off longer from work and written instead of trying to look good to the boss who doesn't care if everyone else in the office is a screw up and late all the time so long as I'm not. If I weren't a grown up and didn't have a conscience....
In other good news, I got my first approval from NetGalley to do a book review. It's a Kensington book so it should be good. I need to get something read for this week's review. I can't believe how fast this week has slipped away. I've got a ton of free reads from Pixel of Ink so I'm going to have to dive into one of those to have it ready by Saturday.
No, I haven't read all of Titanic 2012 yet. I haven't gotten past the first chapter. It was AWFUL and every page was torture to read. I've got hundreds of people waiting to torture me so why should I do it to myself? I will read more of it eventually I suppose. After I said I was going to toast the writer for bad behavior, two copies of my book sold later that day which makes me think if I say what I think, he's going to torpedo me whether my book is good or not. With all the recent sockpuppetry from the more immature out there, I don't know if I want to take the chance of ending up with 20 one star reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. I mean, no one reads my book and no one reviews it (except Ralph) so if he decides he's got nothing better to do than bury me, I'm going to get buried. His reviews are obviously sockpuppets or paid reviewers so I know he has the inclination.
Just as an aside in regards to the sockpuppetry as self promotion, I'm both happy and sad that it never occurred to me to write some reviews for myself. It never even crossed my mind to write reviews for myself which I think says something about my character. I could have had reviews, but I'm not that vain and delusional I guess. Who'd a thought that? Me, not delusional?
I better be careful. People will start to think I'm not crazy and then where will I be?