So, there’s this plot bunny starting to form. I don’t actually have a story yet, just a main character: a Mexican demon named Charlie. And I’m not sure, but I think maybe he can only possess pencils.
If you’re as totally unaware of trending teen things as I am, you’re probably scratching your head wondering what on earth I’m talking about, so here’s the explanation.
At work last night I was on a different unit than the one I usually work. One of the aides there is also a preacher and is a bit… over zealous… at times. I’m not sure what prompted the conversation but he asked another aide if she had heard about “the Charlie Charlie pencil game.”
She thought for a minute and said, “Do you mean the thing with the piece of paper with yes/no/no/yes?” and started to get a piece of paper to draw it out and was demonstrating how the pencils laid on top of each other for it.
He stopped her and said not to do that because it would summon a real demon.
He was completely serious.
And apparently it’s a Mexican demon. (Although he did say that demons don’t have nationalities.)
Anyhow, I now want to write about a Mexican demon named Charlie.
I’m just… not sure what his story is.
Yet.
Any work on this story (other than kicking it around in my head) is probably a long way from happening, but it’s so rare that I have a clear example of where a story idea came from that I had to share.
In other writing news, I started working through the bit that blocked me from working on entering changes to Onyx Sun. And I wrote (more of) a scene to be added to the first book of the Academy of the Accord series. The scene seems kind of… not really necessary (although it will further character development, world building, etc) but it’s needed for a scene in Book 12, so…
And I got a bit more done on the Elven Bard novel that only has half a title.
So, there you have it. My weirdness and inspiration for the week as well as a bit of progress.
Novel Notes 