That scene? Its from the movie ghoat. Twchnically its an on screen interracial lesbian kiss because PatricknSwayzee (guy on screen) is in Whoopi Goldberg’s body. (Ap, the visual is a hetero oiss, but you onow who he is in, for thst). Wholly caused a ruckus the year it came out.
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I now what the movie is. I was saying that my idea is a ghost romance.
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Oh, you’re thinking a romance. Dang, lmao. That’s a way to make smut scenes difficult to pull off. goes to cup something and hand goes through it
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This makes me wanna write the other idea or one of the other ideas that I wrote, that’s significantly less difficult lol
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What, treating intimacy like it’s a game cheat? Konami all the way. up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A and Start
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If I am being honest, romance is boring to me and hard to write.
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People who make just react videos and add no original thought to it, or are on TikTiok being an NPC shouldn’t be paid for it. At least put in effort. You’re drying the resources over stupid stupidity.
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Both, really. I post updates about current cases, explore old ones, and research psychology to apply to female killers as so little is written about it.
This happens every time!
I pants it, as well. When doing the first draft, I make an outline as I go so I know what has already happened before that chapter, and to use while working on draft 2, but lots gets taken out and new stuff added, so the first outline is pretty irrelevant by the time I finish draft 2. After draft 2, I revise to ensure character stuff remains relevant, scenes are strong, the mystery itself stays on track.
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The psychology part sounds interesting. I’m always curious how people’s minds work.
Are there some particular old cases that have stuck with you for whatever reason?
You seem to have a good drafting and revising system 
I’ve written a mystery before. Pantsed it of course. But before writing a mystery, I didn’t think a mystery could be pansted. I thought you had to know everything and how it all connected (outline) to write a mystery. So, I tried to outline a mystery once, and never got passed the opening scene 
But I realized, if I know my own story well, I could write one. So, I did, eventually. I’m working on the complementary duology now.
So, what’s the one you’re writing now? And do you usually work on one story at a time or multiple?
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The psychology is what fascinates me most. What makes them who they are? What brought them to this point in their lives? Why do their minds work that way?
Two cases I’ve written about stick with me right now - (Trigger warning for everyone else - murder involving children) -
Summary
Nikki Cappello and Julissa Thaler. Cappello was a nurse convicted of poisoning her husband to death. He was a private investigator who was looking into her painkiller addiction and planned on divorcing her and taking their daughter with him if she didn’t get help. She killed him before he could get their daughter out. It was a very heartbreaking one to follow. Thaler shot her six year old son to death in a bitter custody dispute, and what stands out to me in that one was the father’s grief and how hard he fought for his son. Thaler had addiction and mental issues she didn’t address, and instead of becoming a better mother, she got angry at the dad for trying to take her son away after already losing custody of him. She became enraged at the relationship the father and son built while the son lived with relatives, and two weeks after getting custody back of him, she killed him.
I pants my first drafts. I too don’t know the story until I just write it out, then I figure the details out in the second draft.
I am working on the sequels to both series. The Beyond Dark sequel is in editing/rewrite stage, and the novella’s sequel is still in beginning first draft.
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I always want to know this.
I have a character that is a psychopath. I did a lot of research on what a psychopath really is to make sure I was writing a real person (as much as I can, even listening to interviews with people who know they are a psychopath) and not like those characters in the media. I really tried to understand how their minds work.
The second case you mentioned, it looks to me like a “If I can’t have him, no one can” because otherwise why would she kill her own son after getting him back? Was there ever an answer as to why?
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I also do tons of that research. Lots of listening to interviews, reading books, etc. Especially for female killers - their minds work WAY different from male killers.
She never gave a motive, but I think it’s pretty clear given the timing of the murder. “If I can’t have him, no one can” is accurate, I believe. The boy’s dad left her and tried to take the kid, and she saw she was losig everything. The son was the only leverage she had left against her ex. The only control.
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It makes sense, but that’s terrible 
Do you watch Bailey Sarian? She often dives into the upbringings of killers to try to understand them.
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I don’t. I read more than I watch things, to be honest.
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Do you get into any of the unsolved ones? Bailey doesn’t get into them much because she doesn’t like them and I don’t blame her 
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Not a whole lot. I mostly follow new cases as they come up in the news and follow them until the trial concludes, then I’ll do a detailed write-up about it. I just finished one on the Julissa Thaler case yesterday.
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How is everyone?
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Minor headcold. Spouse took a test and it’s supposedly covid. Worst of it was yesterday, for me.
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This song is my thoughts right now:
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A good night’s rest makes all the difference
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