Some days it all works out

I’m still fighting this cold, even though I returned to work on Thursday. It forced me out of bed around 6:00 to blow my nose and that signaled the dogs it was time for breakfast.

I sequestered myself in my office room, with a humidifier, and went to work.

I’m into it an honest 3500 words today. I really lunged the story forward, and the WIP is at 37,800 right now. It would be easy to keep going, but I have other things to attend to.

This is the scene where all the mystery boxes find answers, and that poses a new problem. I’m going to have to shift gears from learning about the mystery to figuring out what to do with the answers.

Jenny wanted to be an investigative reporter, and her story is in front of her. There are are a couple of other characters who need to wrap some things up.

I still have not accounted for the stalkers, and I will for the most part, but the story has to shift gears now. It stops being about what’s going on, and shifts to what to do about it, and how to protect themselves from those who want the answers for another reason.

I want it to come out at novel length, and think I can do that. However, I am worried about those who got engaged in the mystery being shifted to more of a cat and mouse game now. Will they stick with me, or will they bail out after the mystery is solved?

There is no way of knowing completely, and I intend to finish it the way I planned it. I’m loving the story and am excited about it. Maybe others will feel the same way.

In another aspect, one of the characters, Bai, dabbles with artwork. She made a rubbing of one of the biggest clues in the story. I think it would make a great book cover. She owns special crayons (not Crayola) to to make these. It is an imprint in a piece of concrete. I had her make it in brick-red. I could change the color for the purpose of a book cover. Grey might not stand out at thumbnail size, and black is kind of boring. Should I stick with Brick, or consider something else? Let me know if you have a better suggestion.

Now if I only had a title for this story. Can’t have everything, and I won’t let that damper my great writing day. Hope you are all enjoying yourselves doing something fun.

Time for a new Blake Hetherington Mystery

I've read a few of these books, and they keep getting better and better. Let D. S. Nelson entertain you with her newest release called Live and Let Bee.

Live and Let Bee is the sixth Blake Hetherington mystery and the second novel in the series.

‘Honey is sweet, but the bee stings’ and Blake Hetherington knows this only too well. Blake is a gentleman in modern times; a milliner with mystery solving thrust upon him. Delilah is an enthusiastic archaeologist with an unhealthy interest in murder; DS Rob Claringdon is her beau. This unlikely trio is at the heart of a quirky, amusing and quintessentially English, murder mystery.

 

‘Live and Let Bee’, finds our heroes on a remote feudal island to celebrate a wedding, but after two mysterious deaths, are they able to resist investigating a case that involves warring honey farms, Russian oligarchs and a dark family secret?

‘Live and Let Bee’ is available to pre-order on Kindle via the links below and is officially released on Kindle and in paperback on the 2nd March 2016.

 

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D S Nelson is a writer of murder, mystery and intrigue. She lives in a quixotic village in the South Downs, UK, surrounded by plenty of inspiration for her novels.

Her introduction to murder came from Agatha Christie. The inquisitive Miss Marple, of St Mary Mead, and very Belgian Poirot, with his 'little grey cells', captured her imagination from a young age.

With a passion for the crime genre, in particular detective fiction, D S Nelson’s writing includes cosy crime novels, novelettes and short stories. Her writing is often inspired by the world around her, nature, history and of course people. She is currently working on the Blake Hetherington mystery series, the first five of which are now available on Kindle.

Her influences include, Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey, Arthur Conan Doyle, Simon Brett and Peter Robinson.

You can find her at the following locations:

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The Idea Mill # 8

I’ve gathered up a few more cool articles to help spark your imaginations. These are interesting for anyone who wants to take a look. I always look at them from a writer’s perspective.

The first one is one of those top ten lists. Thankfully, it isn’t the type where you have to click on page one through ten to read it. (I hate that) This one is called 10 of the Stranges Jobs in the Victorian Era. All of them would add a bit of style to a novel set in this era.

I was drawn to the lamplighters and how they sold interesting bugs to collectors. They would have observed a great many things during a shift, and would make great informants. Maybe you want to write a story about a mad scientist, and the first evidence is some strange bug.

I also liked the leech collectors. They would be the perfect ones to find the floating body somewhere. I’ve seen too many grave robbers and female hysteria doctors, but they probably have some mileage left in them.

This one is called 10 Unsolved Mysteries from the Wild West. There are several lost mines mentioned. Those who like adventure stories ought to find something interesting about those. You wouldn’t have to set the story in the Wild West either. It could be a Martian colony pretty easily.

I’m drawn to the guy who was marooned on Antelope Island. I think this could be made into a ghost story pretty easily. So could Pancho Villa’s body parts.

The last one I’ll just call 6 Ancient Objects. These are things from the ancient world that we still can’t explain today. Any one of them would make a great “we are not alone” kind of story. I also like the Baigong Pipes as part of a fantasy story. They could be all kinds of things, from a weapon to a cemetary in a fantasy setting. Those stone spheres would make great monster eggs too.

I’ll keep collecting articles and posting these, they are pretty popular posts. Share what you can come up with in the comments. I’d like to hear it, and I’ll bet other readers would too. Maybe your leech catcher saves enough cash to go hunting for a lost gold mine in Costa Rica, and comes across some huge stone spheres that are more than they seem.

Happy reading and have fun with them.