From Twitter 06-20-2010

• 10:07:45: I have watched so much Most Haunted this weekend, I'm starting to believe Derek Acorah is a real medium
  
• 10:08:10: I want to see a psychic-off between him and Derren Brown. Winner takes on Kris Angel
  
• 10:13:15: Anyway: Demonised synopsis. Go!
  
• 10:36:50: @yolandasfetsos I am indeed! Hopefully today if I get myself in gear and stop watching Most Haunted, lol
  
• 10:42:53: @yolandasfetsos TV show where a crew investigates haunted locations around the UK - very OTT and fun
  
• 11:00:23: Why do my synopses always make my stories sound ridiculous?
  
• 11:13:47: @yolandasfetsos I'm never sure how much effort to put into them! I've been told it's not worth polishing and polishing them
  
• 11:13:54: @RichHL That's probably true
  
• 11:23:47: @RichHL Aha, yeah, that sounds much better. I'm putting that on my business card
  
• 11:24:17: @etaknosnhoj Mine are too, when you reduce them down to two pages. The words "zany" and "WTF?" come to mind
  
• 11:24:50: Okay, Demonised has been submitted. Cue weeks of impatience and angst
  
• 11:31:18: @RichHL A celebratory shower in my case, I think!
  
• 12:34:08: @etaknosnhoj Damnation Books, same people who published Afterlife. Seems like the best starting place since it's a follow-up!
  
• 12:34:18: @yolandasfetsos Thanks!
  
• 13:31:42: Okay, horoscopes done. Must be time to stop being so productive...
  
• 20:01:40: @LKHamilton Grammar check would help with that!
  
• 21:05:35: I'm admitting defeat on Bad Dogs. My heart isn't in this plot. I want monsters in sewers and that's what I'm going to write
  
• 21:06:26: Bad Dogs is going away and Ayla and Shannon are going to Paris
  
• 21:19:44: Thus I am now researching the sewers in Paris. Wish we'd visited when we were there!
  
• 21:32:49: RT @DamnationBooks: Fangtastic interviews DB author Su Hafwerk--includes a giveaway. http://bit.ly/c6akBF
  

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Writing Meme Day 17, 18, & 19

So, yes. Obviously I got behind. Luckily these are all pretty easy questions to answer.

17. Favorite protagonist and why!

It's so hard to choose just one when I love them all for different reasons, but I can narrow it down to Scarlett and Lizzie. Scarlett purely because she's my first creative endevour, she's been floating around my imagination for almost two decades, and I just love her utterly. Her backstory, her abilities, her flaws, her choices, her friends, her whole overly-complicated life. I love her world, love writing it, and can't wait to get back into it one of these days...

Lizzie because I've spent so much damn time with her she almost feels like a real person to me anyway. Wild is the book that has kicked my ass the most over the years, and it still isn't quite right, but Lizzie has remained consistent throughout. Flawed but fighting, scared but brave, angry but vulnerable and always trying so hard to sort herself out. Bless her.

18. Favorite antagonist and why!

Ash and Ash and Ash. There can be no other answer. Although I suppose he's technically an anti-hero, he certainly goes out of his way to antagonise as many people as possible. He's so much fun to write because he's properly messed up. Devious, power-hungry, self-serving, poetic, alcoholic, manipulative, and so hopelessly in love with Scarlett it kills him. He doesn't know what to do with her. Ash is my main man, crushing all others underfoot and leaving a trail of devastation and empty wine bottles in his wake.

19. Favorite minor that decided to shove himself into the spotlight and why!

Again, there is no answer but Ethan. He was originally a bit player in the Scarlett universe, before I decided he'd bounce of Yasmin in AFTERLIFE perfectly. He was only supposed to be a side character who disappeared at the end of the book and didn't feature again, but I fell in love with him whilst writing AFTERLIFE, and had to carry on with his story. Thus, Demonised, (which I hope will be the first of many adventures for him). Ethan just tugs at my heartstrings. He's always so out of his depth and trying so hard to act like he's not. He's gruff and makes terrible jokes and likes to imagine he's Sam Spade, but there's a heart of gold underneath it all. He's a close second behind Ash.

( Questions under the cut )