The thing about playing around with your story in the sticky stages is that sometimes the wrong things stick. We already have nine dogs in this story, we definitely do not need a tenth. Especially a tenth with an addiction problem because addiction is not funny. So we absolutely do [...]

I was going to have Kami reading Star, the National Enquirer, and–best of all–World Weekly News to get her take on modern life. Now my favorite part of her reading material is dead according to Salon; go to the “How The World Works” section and page down to find:

What I learned at the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

Wolfie’s cousin Pia is a high fashion model in NYC. Her posters are everywhere:

This is Daisy’s morning-after-the-piggyback-ride scene. It’s rough, but fun. Please notice and adore Squash - she’ll be back with her own dedicated post soon.
When Daisy woke up, Gracie had already gotten Bailey - between their morning walks and the fact that Gracie allowed Bailey to hang out in their shared courtyard while Daisy was at [...]

Okay, it’s not a transcript because we’re together in the Village, but we spent the night brainstorming (Krissie feel asleep which tells you how exciting it was, but Lani and I made it past midnight), and as always, talking about it together in person speeds things up incredibly. Among other things we decided:

From Salon: Do you really want to be a goddess?
July 23, 2007:
I’m not sure if this is good news or bad news, but the BBC reports that one of Nepal’s living goddesses, Sajani Shakya, will not be stripped of her divine standing despite her recent trip to the United States.

Two days until we all three meet up in NYC!! As part of the festivities, I will be making Daisy’s sister Beth’s recipe for Blackberry Mojitos - this is what the Kool-Aid tastes like for Daisy when she tries it, because it has the strong sisterhood association with it. I don’t know how well they’ll [...]

Abby needs to Feed the World. She doesn’t realize it but she’s been starving herself, emotionally and physically, in her need to give to other people, ignoring her own hunger, her own desires, while she searches out the Meaning of Life. I’m pretty sure she was the Goddess of the Hearth — and [...]

I’m having a heck of a time writing this fourth Shar scene.  I have literally thousands of words on it, none of which make sense.   It’s nailing the arc of her discovery.  The first time I wrote it, I moved her coming awake too far up.  The second time I wrote it, it was boring [...]