Abandoning Red

By mutual, amiable agreement, the muse and I had both agreed to abandon Red, Redefined after the muse came back and revealed that the killer was Jules Verne. I searched myself over this, and then I thought about the time that I exploded ay my roommate because Isaac Newton was the villain for Escaflowne. And, to this day, just thinking that gets my temper up. Not because they used a real person, but because their plot was so stupid that "Isaac Newton did it" was the final stupid straw that killed the stupid pony.

And to make Jules Verne the answer for my story irritates me in the same way. This story was already stretching to cover its main theme and also be a time travel murder mystery. And, I don't like time travel stories. I've made three attempts to write one, and I've abandoned each project feeling unsatisfied with the whole thing.

Here at least, I love Charles and Greta. But he's an older villain and she's a child bride, and that's not going to sell well no matter what I do with the time travel side of the story.

So, me and the muse have to work out who gets written about next. There's Vicky's new novel, where the murders she committed in Arizona finally catch up with her, and then there's book two in the Sin City trilogy, where Wendy fights a daemon and almost dies right at the start, leading to a book mostly about Rafael and his efforts to track down Phillip after Phillip kidnaps a comatose Wendy from the hospital.

And, nobody will buy these stories either. But I'll hopefully be able to finish them and move on to the next books in both series.