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Decisions, decisions

I have so many ideas they are leaking out my ears. But ideas do not make for interesting reading. Here are my choices for my National Novel Writing Month (Nov,) Help me pick! 1)Drue and Dakota's WIP --Currently untitled This started off as a dream which I could turn into a sexy 50 K book. Basically, the future earth where sex for sale is the hot new homeopathic treatment. The evil Illustra corporation has enslaved alien empaths, draining their natural gifts for profit. Pro: This one has Lucia Lovelace (My new erotic persona) all over it. When in doubt, someone get's naked. Con: It's barely more than a wisp of an idea. I don't have fully fleshed out characters or setinng so I need to do plenty of research and planning ahead of time. 2) For A Reason Another contemporary, started the same time as Redeeming Characters. It's rich boy, blue collar girl, banter, bicker kiss and make up stuff. Originally I thought to set it in Upstate New York, but I've been toying wit...

A word on world building.***STELLAR SPOILERS***

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Stellar Timing is my first foray into the art of world building. Everything else I've ever written has been based in the world I know, contemporary, whether it be mystery, romance or romantic suspense, it's set in the present, defined by the laws of physics and explainable to an extent. But along comes Stellar Timing. The only rule, be consitant and true to the world I've created. There is nothing I HATE more than when a writer sets up a world with an established set of rules, then goes and tosses the rule book without explaining the why of it. It's sloppy and itfeels like they've cheated me. It is hard, I just caught one of my own warts the other day, I had Brennigan read something out of a dictionary and then not even two pages later, he told Jeremy he couldn't read English. Hello, brain were you on your break? I derive a small amount of comfort from the fact that I caught it before anyone else did, otherwise I would have looked like a royal ass. Speaking...