Works in Progress

This day job is killing me! Well, my writing anyway.

It is very hard to be creative while bouncing down the highway in the sleeper of a semi while Hubby is driving. Driving on these long stretches across Nebraska or Wyoming, I've got plenty of time to think of plots and scenes and character traits, but getting them on the computer? Not so easy.

But enough excuses. I've switched focus from Last Second Chance (Boys of Syracuse, Kansas #2) to a story my husband and I have concocted. It is set in the future, and some of the features I'm touting as futuristic are actually coming close to fruition, so if I want to be cutting edge, I need to get busy on it. Those of you who read my blog when I was doing it as Hella Mel will understand when I say that the DOT is talking about reducing driving hours again by 2015....

The hard part is that this story is basically a murder mystery, and I've never written one of these before. I don't know the formula, or if I even want it to be formulaic. However, I do know that there are definite rules to mystery books, and I don't want to offend any readers of that genre. So I find myself spinning my wheels.

But the mystery is a compelling one. Will truck drivers cum amateur sleuths Mel and Rory figure out who the killer is before the body count climbs even higher?

Meanwhile, the romance between Tim and Janie in Last Second Chance just won't leave me alone.

So much to write, so little time to write.