(personal) My brain, I can haz it, pls?

So far this morning, I have successfully put the laundry in the living room away and made gingersnaps. I have also:

1. put the clean laundry that I JUST pulled from the dryer into the wash (catching myself AFTER I turned the washer on, of course)
2. destroying chicken stew (don't ask)
3. nearly redecorated my kitchen with fried eggs

Yeah, lovely morning. I'm now going to attempt to clean my living room and get some other stuff together - I need to do my crits for DII and send my press kit off. And then, finally, I might write.

Argh. What a day. On the upside, I found a very weird little beginning that I entitled "Blood" - it's an odd BDSM horror novel that's intriguing me. Very different from what I usually write. I'm going to see where it takes me.

Now, onward and upward.

(auction) for a good cause...

p_n_elrod is auctioning off a signed Jim Butcher arc of the latest Dresden Files book for a great cause -the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

Here's all the details.

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(blood) Metrics

So apparently, this story wants to be written...

starting count: 755
ending count: 1898
change: +1143

starting line:
Her long, slim fingers dug into his skin with insistent terror, startling him.

ending line:
Tom followed a cracked stone path to the former front door and stepped inside, wondering what he would find.

darling:
Emma Beldin held her tea cup as if it were an oracle’s bowl, containing the secrets of the past and the future in its steaming depths. Her long hair escaped in chocolate tendrils from the bun on top of her head to caress the sides of her face, twining around the neck of her creamy sweater and tangling in her pearls. Her dark eyes were soft and harsh in the same instant, a grandmother’s look of serenity and steel.

***

So far, I have a mute girl with supernatural healing abilities, an artist who carves into her flesh and a cop who is damned confused.

Oh, and she came from a house that burned down 60 years ago. So very odd...