From Twitter 07-17-2010

• 07:37:59: Pip's house is hotter than the sun. I don't know how she doesn't melt
  
• 11:09:16: I have to do housework. Why does this happen and how can I make it stop?
  
• 12:10:30: @Scarimonious You can clean some things all of the time, all things some of the time but not all things all the time
  
• 12:11:03: And on that note, I'm leaving the house. Maybe forever
  
• 16:16:26: @thetheoryof Yeah, but then you have to keep your patch of grit under the bridge free of needles and empty cider tins
  
• 19:04:40: RT @DamnationBooks: Kathryn Meyer Griffith is on One World Once Voice Blogtalk tonight 5-6 pm Central time. Oh, the stories she'll tel ...
  
• 19:48:47: Ayla has a fear of heights, apparently. I did reference it in Wolf Strap, but never thought about it much in Silver Kiss #amwriting
  
• 19:49:19: Now she's in Paris heading to the top of the Arc d'Triomphe and suddenly remembering that wolves don't normally go so high #amwriting
  
• 19:52:42: RT @lilithsaintcrow: RT @jesshartley: "Who Do You Write Like" meme run by vanity press:: http://bit.ly/bcQTHj
  
• 19:52:46: RT @UnrealitySFJens: My review of Una McCormack's ( @unamccormack ) Doctor Who novel The King's Dragon is now online at Unreality SF htt ...
  
• 19:58:34: @Scarimonious It's okay, Ayla and Shannon have been the catacombs, freaked out a tour guide, and are now doing tourist stuff
  
• 19:59:17: @Scarimonious Later, the monster will do something dramatic and hopefully unexpected, but now there is romance and acrophobia
  
• 20:08:38: @Scarimonious I do! I might celebrate with pizza!
  

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"Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle, and an end" - Philip Larkin

Although I'm nowhere near the middle of BLOOD HUNT, I am approaching the muddle. Missing werewolves, dead bodies, weird smells, and maybe even an angry mob are all on the horizon for Ayla and Shannon. I can't possibly write a werewolf novel set in France without referencing France's Middle Ages obsession with werewolves, witches, and vampires. In the sixteenth century there was a whole rash of court cases against supposed werewolves like Gilles Garnier, and I really want to work some of that history into BLOOD HUNT. It's always fun when you realise you've already paved the way for that kind of plot point accidentally (though of course I shall claim I planned it all along on account of my genius...)

Anyway, I feel so much better about my progress today. I haven't done much writing this week because of the damned virus, but I'm feeling a little healthier today (pizza and wine is my secret!). I'm switching off the laptop for the rest of the day to do some reading for my next planned project, the YA thing with the Satanic ritual abuse and eating disorders and such*. I'm also toying with ideas for this anthology, fired by my weekend habit of watching way too much Most Haunted.

Anyway, here's where we're at with BLOOD HUNT now:

 

18364 / 70000 words. 26% done!

*And people say writers are all maudlin, depressed cave-dwellers**!
** I have never met a writer who lives in a cave, but I would like to live in a lighthouse.