Story Idea in the Back of my Head

Writer's journal: The end of the month is coming up fast. I'm editing The Adjusters #20, which I know many of you have been waiting for patiently. Which means that my back's to the wall and I have to decide on something I've been going back and forth over for the past month. Thankfully, it's not a large plot point. Meanwhile, I'm hacking away on #23, which is looking like another 10K+ words monstrosity. But I keep stealing time away from it to hack away on a later episode (a much later episode) that has caught my imaginative fancy and that I had to write parts of lest it disappears back into the fine mist where ideas live.

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There's been a story in the back of my head that has been knocking over and over at the door of the conscious writing part of my brain, begging for attention. And unfortunately, I can't find a way to fit it in the Adjusters universe. Which usually means that if I cannot find a way to fit it in and I cannot get rid of it eventually, I will have to write it.

The idea is simple. In fact, it's not even a full-fledged idea. It's really just a bunch of characters. And it's the oldest story in the book: a high-school boy befriends the friendly and sexy single neighbor, who teaches him the ways of love. Need I say that the neighbor in question is a retired porn star? And that she turns him into an irresistible babe magnet? And that the mob comes knocking because of an old story between the neighbor and an infatuated boss that went wrong? I'm seeing Kayden Kross in the title role—my current porn crush. (I'm allowed to have porn crushes, right? That's not too weird?)

It doesn't take a psychologist to figure out where this is coming from. As I said in my last post, I've been re-reading a bunch of Vulgus stories, and one of them is 400mm of Mrs. Hanson, an ultimately rather disappointing story except for a couple of hot scenes, I'm sorry to say, but with a great character, the—wait for it!—sexy older neighbor who teaches the protagonist the ways of love, one lovely (and delightfully perverted) Cassidy Hanson.

And one of my favorite stories ever, as the lot of you well know, Bluedragon's An Ordinary Teenage Sex Life, starts out with the protagonist meeting up with his—yup—sexy older neighbor who teaches him the ways of love, the lovely and sexually enthusiastic Keira McNeil.

You know, now that I think of it, I suspect there's an old leftover fantasy from my teenage years lurking, here...

Oh, before I leave, I should point out that I'm back on Twitter. After a long silence. Still not sure what I'm doing there, but from what I gather from the people I follow, neither do they, so I'm in good company. If you're in the neighborhood, feel free to drop by and say hi.