Sorry I haven't posted since November. I would tell you why, but I don't really know.
The reason I'm posting now is I had some car trouble.
Tuesday after work, I went to start my car and it wouldn't. Everytime I turned the key it sounded like metal blades were grinding my engine. I called my dad, and thankfully he was close by at a basketball game. He and my mom came and he tried to get it working. We tried jumpstarting it, we tried moving the car out of the parking spot, and finally we just pushed my poor car into the opposite parking spot and went home.
Wednesday dad called the car place he had taken it to the last time it broke and they said they would work on it. So when I rode the bus to work, I waited by my car until the tow truck came, then went to work.
I got to tell you, it's not a good feeling when you see your car being carried away. As it passed work I said goodbye to it, softly. My boss heard me, which wasn't a big surprise, and he asked who's car it was. He looked really worried when I told him it was mine. (He does everything he can, and has done everything, to keep the employee's cars from being towed. Long story)
Then I told him that it hadn't started before, and he relaxed a little, but still looked worried/sorry for me. (I gotta tell you, I love my boss.)
This morning, around 10, I woke up to my phone ringing. It was dad, who was coming back from a work appointment. He said that he had talked to the repair guy and that the car was fixed.
WHOOOOT!
He said that the part had a LIFETIME WARRENTY, unlike what he thought, and I only have to pay for the labor. I didn't even have to pay for the towing! And my car is fixed! I thought it would take a couple days, but apparently the guy worked into the night to get it fixed...
If I could, I would marry this guy.
So that's my story.
In other news, I found this new freeware program online that I love and have started using a lot. It's called Q10 and is a full screen editor. Since getting it on Sunday, I have written close to 5,000 words and 4 chapters on ONE STORY. Which doesn't happen! And it doesn't feel like I'm going to stop.
Usually when I switch stories I first have a new idea, and when I try to put it off I get a mind full of ideas for that idea. And I haven't for this one. I'm really happy!
True, I had to go through two other stories to get to this one, but this one, like most of my good story ideas, has been, sitting in the back of my mind for a while, and after watching some good TV shows that are related, it came to the front of my mind and demanded to be written.
It's a story about a 25 year old woman who hunts the undead and other things like that. And she has a cool backstory that makes me cry each time I read it, has two nephews who she has to take care of now that her sister is dead, and has a werewolf that is accidentally bound to her, unable to be more then 30 feet away from her.
The character, being a hunter of the undead, may sound like Buffy, but she's not. Not only is she way better, but she's also cooler, and cleaner, which is the most important in my mind.
And I have so many things waiting to be written for this story. I want to make it at least a trilogy, but depending on how long I make the story arch, it might end up longer.
The only plot I have right now is what's buzzing in my head for book one, and a few bits and pieces that I can't wait to write in the next books.
And I think it's going to be great!
