It was between the hours of midnight and two in the morning when I lay in bed and watched the digital numbers slowly change that I realized I had the wrong puppeteer.
Oh, don't get me wrong, the guy I thought it was would still make a great evil doer, but not for this story. I think I'll let him percolate for book 2.
I don't often get insomnia. I think it was due to some cold medicine that I took. Out cold for two hours, then up for two, and finally four hours of moderate sleep. Yeah, I still feel like crap, but shit happens.
Anyhoo, I started thinking about a Scooby-Doo movie along with an Agatha Christie novel--trust me, there is a common intersection--and I realized that the person responsible for committing the crime was already 'dead'. Not dead dead, though it would work since this is an urban fantasy and vampires do make an appearance, but thought to be dead. It gives the character leeway to create all sorts of havoc, and I like making my characters suffer.
If I feel like crap, then they can, too.
That happens to me, too. Don't you hate it?
ReplyDeleteSo what's the intersection between Scooby and Agatha?
Not that I've watched that much Agatha, but Scooby and I are old friends.
From way, way back.
Susan
Ah, the connection with Scooby Doo and Agatha . . .
ReplyDeleteThere's a new Scooby movie where an Egyptian mummy turns people into stone, and we find out in the end that Velma faked her 'death' to trap the real villain. And in one of Agatha's books, Ten Little Indians, I think, one of the 'dead' was actually the killer. So, in my new story I have 4 or 5 'dead' people mentioned in the first chapter and one of them is the bad guy . . . but who?
You have to read it to find out. BWAHAHAHA :-)