Yesterday I figured out the core conflict for Road To Desire. My brain has been working on it for awhile, and I had some ideas jumbled around my head, but I knew they just weren’t right.

Now I’ve got it.

Yay!

Other than that, I am living in Dullsville: house stuff, packing, house, sniffly child, blah. March 1 looks to be our move-in date, so decision-making is escalating. As is tension. Tension is high.

Megan

I was talking to the Pennsylvania Princess last week, and we were chuckling about the apparently oft-asked question, ‘where do you get your ideas?’ Because I get my story ideas all the time–movies, other books, people interacting at the gym or the grocery store, fights with the Spouse (see: Mothering Heights), etc. How do you not get story ideas?!? It’s life!

And yesterday, while at the gym, I was listening to The Jam’s Setting Sons, easily one of my favorite records of all time. The song “Little Boy Soldiers” came on, and per The Jam’s usual style, is a scathingly bitter indictment of politics and war and who gets caught in the crossfire. Which then gave me my hero’s motivation in Road To Desire, which was cool. I totally had an open-mouthed, wide-eyed moment of epiphany at the gym. Neat!