People always want to get inside my head. Women more than men, but they both say the same sorts of things:
"What's going on in your head?"
"I want to see what you see."
"Can I take a look inside your brain."
"Give me a look into your mind..."
Went out the other night with friends to pub quiz. Got asked a variation of the above by a slightly-drunken S.
B: Why does everyone want to see inside my head?
S: Because! I need to know...
M: Ohhh that's not a great idea. First off there are far too many walls in there. Then, if you do manage to get in, you'll never make it out alive. You'll stay trapped in there. Forever.
I like my friends.
My head is in a slightly weird place these days. I was planning on continuing with Sword but Stripped, the third book of the Baal's Heart trilogy, wouldn't let me go so I started writing that instead. I'm about a chapter in and so far so good. However, the weather's been fucking with my sinuses again so I've got a headache half the time which sucks.
It took me 82 days to write Caged. Sacrificed took me 173 days to write. I wonder how long Stripped will take me? When I wrote Caged, it was the only thing I was working on. I had two other projects on the go during the time I was writing Sacrificed. This time around... oh I have too many projects competing in my head. I should really focus on one thing at a time.
Any chance of a dark or dark-ish enemies-to-lovers novel in all of those projects rattling around your head? S’il vous plaît?
Hmm… I have the beginnings of something like that. Gladiators. Not sure when I’ll get to it though.
Currently finishing up a fantasy novel. It’s not particularly dark though.
All dark isn’t necessary anyway – you have a good mix of light and dark out there, so steady on. Gladiators are actually an excellent idea and a world which I haven’t yet seen explored in erotica/romance/MM/MMM (that’s not saying much, I may just not have stumbled across it yet.) It would make for a nice change from the mafia/hitman trope.