The Angel Project: Chapter 4, rough draft, done. Chapter 5 begun.
So I’ve been pushing myself to write more on a daily basis. That’s really difficult for me. Life interferes like crazy. How do “real” authors do it? By real I mean those prolific super duper multi-published authors. The ones pumping out the books like a machine?
But I am gearing myself up. Creating a routine for myself so that I can settle into it and just go. And it’s working pretty much. Slowly getting hubby into my routine. He gets a little grumpy when I don’t want to go watch a movie in the middle of my writing day. I said if you’d plan it just a bit, I could work around it. I try to give a bit, because when he returns to work, he won’t be here to do stuff with and I’ll miss him. (Althernately, he won’t be here to bug me to go do something with him LOL and then I’ll be the one responsible for cleaning up the dogs’ messes.)
Got some crits on 4, with the understanding that it’s fairly rough. There’s a LOT going on.
I introduce “The Five” — the last five true Nephilim, Fallen Angels, left on Earth. Their powers have waned. They want them back. Well, A couple of them want them back really bad. One guy is happy to be alive and living just about forever. Each has his or her own agenda, of course.
And I introduce the crux of the story, the serum Max is developing to return their angelic powers, and his ace in the hole so to speak — his daughter whom he injected a previous version of the serum with in vitro almost twenty years ago. He has found her after losing her when her mother “escaped” (the operative word) and took the baby with her. Da da da dum.
So I’m writing this scene that introduces my main antagonist (Max) and the other co-antagonists but maybe one isn’t so antagonists, we’ll see how that goes.
Anyway. I have “The Five”
Gregori, the
Watchers. They are Fallen Angels, the last of the Nephilm left on Earth. So I’m introducing the Five. Each has their own personality. Strong obviously because they’ve been alive a very long time.
One is Qin Shin Tang, a Japanese Nephilim representing the Asian areas (they control certain powers over certain land masses), and I need a particular painting or piece of art in her office that would represent her personality.
So I’m perusing thru modern Japanese art and come across
Yasumasa Morimura. And I’m thinking how appropriate! Only, in the ‘After Elizabeth Taylor I’ … instead of with his face, Qin’s so forceful and well, she has her own face there in the painting instead (over Morimura’s who has his face over Elizabeth Taylor’s who’s face is in place of Cleopatra, get it? LOL). She as the intelligent, alluring Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, as the beautiful, iconic Elizabeth Taylor, in place of the artist himself lol.
I’m still working on the others, but it’s a start.
And yes, I know “Qin Shin Tang” is not a true Japanese name. Each word means something, though. And what would one call oneself if she were created before there were Japanese people? Before there were even humans?
I’ve given each of the five Grigori (the Watchers because they are supposed to “watch” over humanity) a human name, but they also have an angel name (to be determined). All names at this point are mostly placeholders. This is a first rough draft and for me, laying out the story is foremost. Then, I’ll begin the ironing out of details in another pass, and each pass thereafter will, of course, build the story, layer upon layer.
I am always open for suggestions! Y’all I’m sure have much more knowledge about some of these things than I do. A lot of this stuff I have to research or make it up as I go and research later. You are always welcome to give me a shout with suggestions.
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