Demons In, Souls Out
Mar122008
I caved on the demons. But no soul-eating.
Veronica and Bob regarded each other with deep suspicion upon meeting and avoided each other after that. Milton follows Bob around like a . . . well, a puppy. I can’t keep him out of the upstairs. Bob sat with Lucy on his lap while we watched TV (actually part of our research) and she was so happy she could hardly contain herself. The other three sat on my lap: Veronica watched his every move, Wolfie fell asleep, and Milton yearned to go to him.
But most of the day, aside from a field trip, we worked. So far I have googled Etruscan deities, fortune telling machines, and the route to PA. We have come up with at least four plots and then stopped and said, “No, too complicated,” and started over again with our original premise. We have one now that has the illusion of simplicity which we will inevitably complicate up as we write it, but at least we’re starting simple. I love my heroine, Bob’s got his hero completely, we have a terrific sidekick already and some of the best bad guys of all time.
And ten hours on the road tomorrow to argue it out some more. After which we will check into a motel and argue about it in the restaurant. After which we will go to our rooms and e-mail each other to argue about it again. A full day, in other words.
But Bob is happy because after watching me flash my iPhone all day, he went to the AT&T store to get a new recharger for his phone and decided the recharger was so expensive he might as well get an iPhone. Yes, I realize the iPhone screams “Yuppie” all over it, but that’s only to people who don’t have one. If you have one, it’s a gateway to the world. I sat in the cellphone lot yesterday and went on the internet to check Bob’s flight status, read my e-mail, and then watched part of an episode of Supernatural before he called from baggage claim. And that’s not including the maps and the camera (I took 97 pictures today, none of Bob) and . . .
So the first thing Bob says after he powers his up? “It doesn’t have a voice recorder.”
He’s fighting me on part of the back story, too. Some guys you just can’t please.
And tomorrow he wants to start on the road at 8AM which is a compromise for him since he prefers to leave BMNT or whatever that acronym was. So I’m doing everything tonight, and then he can get up and make his own coffee (as usual) and empty out his own grounds (what are the chances?) and then come bang on my door to wake me up, after which I will stumble to the car and sleep until 11AM like a normal human being while he greets the rosy dawn.
But the important things are, we’ve got a terrific original idea/heart of the story, and Bob has an iPhone.
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20 Comments to 'Demons In, Souls Out'
On March 13, 2008 at 12:01 am inkgrrl said...
I got an iPhone a few months ago and love it. Know that I blame you entirely.
On March 13, 2008 at 1:17 am cc said...
live in the boonies- barely have cell service, don’t have any service for an iPhone, just ask my neighbor
I’m thinking one in 8 chance that Bob will dump his grounds-
On March 13, 2008 at 1:43 am Jenyfer Matthews said...
My phone is so basic that I can’t even download fun ringtones to it yet I spend inordinate amounts of time sending text messages. It scares me to think what I could do with an iPhone.
Coffee grounds? They will be moldy upon your return if you don’t toss them yourself on the way to the car…
On March 13, 2008 at 1:45 am Evesie said...
do you ever live out fantasies of you and Bob like in one of your books? because com’on, for the observer the characters are juicy and the plot so crunchy.
On March 13, 2008 at 2:19 am DownUnderGal said...
What is it with dawn?
Give me midday any time.
On March 13, 2008 at 3:55 am talpianna said...
http://flickr.com/photos/89144510@N00/2330941014/
On March 13, 2008 at 3:59 am talpianna said...
http://catoftheday.com/archive/2008/March/13.html
Anyone we know?
On March 13, 2008 at 6:11 am Inge Cherry pi said...
1. Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, Mass has a fortune telling machine that is exactly like the one in Big.
2. Check out Cat of the Day for March 13th. http://www.catoftheday.com.
On March 13, 2008 at 9:05 am McB said...
Yes, I realize the iPhone screams “Yuppie” all over it, but that’s only to people who don’t have one. If you have one, it’s a gateway to the world.
Yes! The commercials were so tantalizing, so tempting but I tried to resist. Then, Jenny, you confirmed my suspicion that they were just as cool as I thought they were. So I broke down and bought one last fall. My rationalization was thus: (1) my old phone was literally falling apart and so a new phone was imminent anyway, (2) it was less to carry around, as opposed to iPod, cellphone and PDA all separate, (3) the price dropped just as I was needing a new phone anyway and I figured it was an omen. And don’t you just love the Google Map feature?
On March 13, 2008 at 9:24 am LtL said...
Damnation! The battery in MY cell phone is getting too wimpy for verbs. And now this. I live almost within walking distance of an Apple store. I’m so doomed.
But I’ll have cool things to read. No soul-eating is good. But, then, what’s the big threat?
On March 13, 2008 at 10:45 am francois said...
I wish I could lose my phone so I have to buy a fancy new phone. Nearly did a few weeks ago, but found in an old coat a week later. Bah. Consumerism denied.
On March 13, 2008 at 1:33 pm Mary Stella said...
I scorned the iPhone prior to release because of the outrageous hype before the first sale date. I mean really, people. Lining up hours before the store opens to get a phone?? It’s not like you were waiting for a chance to buy tickets to The Beatles reunion concert. I would so stand in line for that since it meant they’d have to resurrect two original members.
Last weekend I actually saw an iPhone in action and then held one in my suddenly covetous hands to touch-screen through pictures.
All of a sudden, my sleek silver Razr phone with its custom Pyxi-puppy teeth marks doesn’t look so cool any more.
*le sigh* I’m toast. I will probably get an iPhone sometime in the future.
On March 13, 2008 at 2:54 pm Louis said...
Way to go Ms Jenny..
Keep pushing Bob into the modern age.
On March 13, 2008 at 3:39 pm McB said...
Isn’t Jenny the one who talked him into an iPod originally?
Mary Stella, I probably could have held out if I hadn’t walked into that Apple store and watched the demo in person. Because up until that point I could convince myself that it couldn’t really live up to the hype. But yeah, that touch screen gets to you.
On March 13, 2008 at 3:40 pm Kay T said...
Are you off for an event somewhere? That can’t be right because your website says you are spending March WRITING!!! So where to? (I know I probably missed this somewhere along the way, sorry).
On March 13, 2008 at 3:55 pm Melissa Blue said...
Nope, ain’t getting one. I’m holding out on Sprint at the moment to see what they are going to do once our contract ends. No matter how much I don’t like their service I refuse to give them $200 to f^&k off. Though I have a strange feeling they’ll get the last laugh somehow.
On March 13, 2008 at 7:24 pm sheagal said...
This is going to push me right over the iPhone edge. Oh well, I guess it was inevitable. I’m pumped about the demons. No need to steal souls. Plain vanilla death and dismemberment is scary enough.
On March 13, 2008 at 7:49 pm talpianna said...
Returning to the topic of food and cooking (as we so often do), check this out:
http://www.slate.com/id/2186458?wpisrc=newsletter
Cooking in a Gangsta’s Paradise:
A new Web show with Coolio and a new season of Top Chef.
On March 14, 2008 at 7:19 pm Eva Gale said...
You know, every time you get something from Apple, he’s right behind you. Even I had Leopard Lust after you posted all your widgets. What’s up with that? Has Bob ever sold YOU on something?
On March 14, 2008 at 10:04 pm CrankyOtter said...
Ohh! The iPhone is very cool. So is the “iBeer” app you can download…
Plus you should buy it because my company makes one of the chips that goes in it. (And you should get a Kindle bcause my friend’s comapany makes the eInk screen.) Oh well, I tried.
But I have coworkers who let me use theirs to surreptitiously blog while we’re in boring meetings, so I’m a convert. I’m just too cheap to get one. But as my mom would say, they’re cooler ‘n hooties.