The Return To Innocence

Hmm. Still heavily outlining the second novel.
Clara no longer has a healing factor; she has quantum phasing - aka phase shift, intangibility ghosting, limited Kitty Pryde power. Amber has a more specific type of telepathy, which connects more with quantum consciousness than actual thoughts - aka soul communication, extreme telempathy, spirit communication, highly limited Rachel Grey power; and Amber's telekinesis is far more developed, including limited healing touch and limited emotional healing on others, which can weaken her without shielding or channeling, but still limited Rachel Grey power.
Clara's hypermobility and joint pain symptoms eases during her phase shifts. Amber's cerebral palsy with its comorbid syndromes eases during any major psychokinetic procedure, but once they're finished, the pain hits them twice as hard, leaving them weakened for at least several hours.
I like that enough to work with it. *nod* But I need advice, opinions, and consultations to make sure I'm Doing It Right. For example, since Clara has mild Asperger's, I have to wonder how her perceptions are affected by her powers.

Also! Thoughts on surnames. Since Clara has full Indian heritage on her father's side, her surname will be probably Atma (and her mother has Siberian and Swedish heritage). Since Amber has full Greek heritage on her father's side, her surname will probably be Spiro ( and her mother has Norwegian and Hungarian heritage). "Soul" and "Spirit" as meanings seem to work for me. I'm not sure if I want them hyphenated or separate.

At the start of the story, they've been legally married for just under one year and are in their late twenties, share a birthday one year apart, and have family members with disabilities and superpowers Amber is on SSDI but is works part-time at Clara's office, which is (for now) Transdimensional Exploration Association Research. Clara and Amber are among the very few paranormals who can open and enter the interdimensional portals without harm. I'm going to be focusing on one or two alternative worlds, perhaps a Fae dimension and an astral plane.

Many thoughts. Many Worlds Theory, indeed.

So, this entire week was spent in a hideous, horrid, horrific, vicious fog of pain and histamines and fatigue and weakness and etc. But right now it is slightly better. I finally managed to get some headway on the Amber/Clara story that will turn into a novel. I got officially rejected by TOR themselves. Hee. I've sent the main novel to other editors in the meantime. I will be changing the title, since Adam informed me that a new video game has that title. /shrug.

It's those things you don't ever give up on, no matter how much you want to, until you breathe and meditate and take Klonopin.

Lammas was lovely, and now it is raining once again. August is going to be weird.

You know, sometimes you write something so bizarre and wild that you need to copy-paste it just to see how people would react...

"...it was like OH NO THE BIKER VELOCIRAPTORS OF THE APOCALYPSE WILL BE UPON ME IN THREE WEEKS AND THE WORLD WILL END UNLESS I FINISH THIS MANUSCRIPT IN THREE WEEKS AND I SEE PEOPLE COVERED IN FISH COMING FOR ME AND I'M SCARED.
But I feel better. It might just be the Klonopin, but I feel better."
And later, "PEOPLE COVERED IN FISH? WHY NOT ZOIDBERG?"

Long story. Long story short, I have a debut book that needs finishing and then editing. Also, I am on painkillers, muscle relaxers, anxiety relievers, and supplements, and also possibly too many cat kisses. I think those in particular can lead to strange behavior.
Good night.

And, once again, the Hollywood movie industry has made a mockery of the creative fiction writing industry. One of my favorite YA books, Blood And Chocolate, is now a movie, coming out on January 26th. The problem is that, of course, the movie has nothing to do with the book's most crucial plot points.
The book is wonderful. Two teenagers -- Vivian the werewolf and Aiden the human --live in Maryland and fall in love. Vivian hides her secret, of course, which proves disastrous when she reveals herself to Aiden one night. Aiden is terrified out of his mind, and Vivian runs off and realizes she can never be with a human. Meanwhile, throughout the book, Vivian is constantly being courted by Gabriel, the wolf pack leader, and she keeps rejecting him because all she wants is to fit in with humans. But that doesn't work after she scares Aiden. Aiden later attempts to "save her" with a silver bullet. Things go wrong. Vivian is caught between her two forms, until Gabriel proves his love. Vivian winds up falling for Gabriel and becoming his mate after all. Happy ending for the wolves, and the humans fade away.
The movie is based on the theme that "the star-crossed lovers find a way to be together." Aiden learns about Vivian early on and helps her fight her "evil pack who hunts humans." Gabriel is seen as evil. The characters live in Bucharest and are in their twenties. Most of the other characters from the book are either gone or changed around. There is almost nothing from the book that is in the film. The film shares so few plotlines with the book it is almost laughable. It really makes me want to cry, because dammit, that is a good book!
And, of course, those who see the movie are going to love it and probably not read the book. While fans of the book will cry out in anger at the book being mangled on screen.
That's it. I give up.
If and when my novel is published, if a Hollywood producer wants to adapt it for a movie, I'm going to say fuck you, no, not unless I co-write the screenplay and work with the director. Which won't be happening anyway.
It made me smile to know that the book's author, Annette Curtis Klause, isn't happy at all about this...
( What she said )