Because I don't have enough on my writing plate...

[agilebrit]

And because the novel for Angry Bitter Angel is intimidating the hell out of me right now, I'm...

Going to attempt a couple of shorts for upcoming anthos.

One is the Coffee anthology. I already have a character who drinks Kopi Luwak, so coming up with a 4000-word story in which something terrible happens to his $600-per-pound coffee should not be difficult. The deadline for that one is August 31, so I'd better get on it.

The other is the Cyborg antho. I've got 8000 words for that one, a basic premise, and a (tentative) deadline of Sept. 15. Yes. It will star a werewolf with a prosthetic limb. Yes. I am headdesking mightily over this because I am going to be forever known as That Werewolf Writer.

On the plus side, Ben gets to sit this one out. However, for the coffee antho, I have no idea how I'm going to shut Alex up enough to squeeze something about him into 4000 words. I guess we'll see. I have outline docs open right now.

There is something wrong with me.

Comments

[roseaponi.livejournal.com]

I think it would be totally plausible for a housecat to drag a bag of civet coffee off the counter, hide it in the litter box, and bury it. :)

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Yes it would! There's even a cat in that household.

But Alex would just buy more, because he doesn't care about money. So what I'm going to have is a catastrophic interruption in the supply of the stuff instead, where even with his billions he can't get it. And that will be the problem he has to solve.

He may solve it by buying a palm civet and feeding it coffee beans himself...

[roseaponi.livejournal.com]

It could be foreshadowing for the larger problem of the world's supply... I was just reading about concerns over how they treat the civets. Maybe all the coffee gets confiscated after a massive scandal involving civet abuse plus inferior/toxic coffee.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

I can totally see Alex finding out about the abuse and recoiling in horror...

And then waving his hand at Megan and going "Buy me a civet and I'll make the coffee myself." He'd give it its own climate-controlled room in the mansion with a suitable habitat and hire a keeper. Alex Jarrett does not do things by halves and once he gets an idea it's hard to move him off it.

[roseaponi.livejournal.com]

And if you need him to shut up, the inferior coffee from mistreated civets could give him laryngitis! ;D

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

...I now have an opening scene. *giggles*

"Alex Jarrett choked on his coffee and stared suspiciously into the oversized mug as if it had just personally offended him. On purpose."

[roseaponi.livejournal.com]

:D This is fun :D Seriously, someday, let's do this in person. :)

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

And it just went from funny to creepy.

I hate my brain.

[roseaponi.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeek!
Not feeling sorry for *those* particular civets... Probably doesn't want one in his house, either...