Curses

The curse of my dream... my day job. I do like my day job but it's rather demanding. How does anyone expect me to spend 3 to 6 hours in meetings yet still work as well? Somehow, they do. One of my coworkers spends 2 or 3 hours every night online working from home. I refuse. I want my evenings for my dogs and my writing. But I'm so bloody tired it's hard to focus. Only getting to sit with my writing for a couple hours a night makes it really hard to keep an idea going.

So, I make notes tonight. History Channel has a show on about Vlad the Impaler. Interesting to me. I do feature vampires in some of my stories... heroes and villains. At the moment, I'm pondering what the result would be if someone were able to boil the blood within a vampire. For purposes of stories, magic could be made to do it but I wonder about a natural compound of some sort. My days of chemisty class are far behind so I'm having trouble with the memory. But I do cook fish with citric acid so I think it's possible. Research time, I believe.

And this is how story ideas hit me. Is it twisted that I watch such a show and ponder boiling the blood within the vampire? Some would say so, I'm certain, but I don't believe it. Seems a perfectly logical question to me.

No, I don't really write horror stories. When I was young, my father was watching the first two Friday the Thirteenth movies and didn't know I was curled up on the floor next to the couch where he couldn't see me. For two solid weeks I didn't sleep more than an hour at a shot after that. Horror movies and I don't get along. Horror books and I really don't get along... my imagination is far to active and graphic for that. Yet I have never seen vampires as terrifying. Just interesting to think about the possibilities.

I'm off to do that little bit of research while this tv show finishes. Then it's cuddle time with the hound dogs though they're already asleep on my bed. I'll have to bribe them off it to find room for myself. No protein bars for them, though.

SK