Here be monsters . . .

This most tempting target for a muse is the mind of a writer who has decided not to write, at least for a while.

I mentioned previously that an old idea of mine had started to become interesting to me again, and that has only gotten stronger since I wrote that. Ideas are coming to me pretty quickly. I've even found a place in this thing to use an idea that came to me in a dream a couple of years ago that I've always wanted to use.

Dammit. I didn't want to write anymore, at least for now. I was getting incredibly frustrated with my attempts at telling a story that didn't suck.

But this thing won't go away. It's going to be complicated, because I've got a lot of background to develop and a pretty complex story--with subplots and subsubplots and metaplots and cemetary plots--to get straight and then keep straight.

So, I'm going to spend some time thinking about The Sorcerer's Daughter.  I guess I have no choice.

At least now I've got an excuse to spend some time thinking about monsters. I'm going to need a lot of monsters, and some of them are going to have to possess enormous power. Some are just going to be mindless animals but some are going to be quite intelligent--some are going to be alarmingly intelligent.

And our hero's job is going to be to protect us from them. But first, she has to learn about them, and how to fight them, or at least how to get them to go away and leave humanity alone.

In the course of all this she's also going to have to learn that, to protect humanity as a whole, she may have to sacrifice parts of it. It's the survival of the species of humanity that she's concerned with, not individual members of it. So, she has to learn to be somewhat cold-blooded and aloof.

All this means that I have my work cut out for me. If I can maintain my interest in this thing.

Stay tuned! Dammit . . .