Temptation Tuesday

I woke up this Morning full of ideas for my newest book entitled: "Bellows in the Mist".  It's a Murder, Mystery Suspense, and Thriller, which I was inspired to write about when a person I knew got caught in a lover’s triangle. Now whether the triangle was intimate or not, that I'll never know, but just the idea of someone caught up in a situation like this, does wild things for a uniquely different type of mind, like mine, to add a creative twist to their fictional writing. I have quite the imagination and it can run rapid when the writing atmosphere is just right. My husband tells me that I watch too many "LMN" (Lifetime Movie Network) shows. Little does he know that I get my greatest inspiration and ideas when just listening and watching people.  I can't tell you how many conversations I have overhead just being at a restaurant and a couple behind us, is having a small spat and believes that they are the only ones that can hear what they are saying. Sometimes I'd love to turn around and politely say to them, "Excuse me. I just want to say that I can hear what you fighting about and I want to thank you. I just figured out how to write chapter 23 in my book." and then give them a wink.

There has been other times when we have been with friends out dancing and you over hear someone on their cell phone trying to assure the person, on the other end of the phone, that they love them and will be home soon, while at the same time they keep rolling their eyes and telling the lover of the evening to keep quite.  (Come on, I know you have seen this before. You don't have to be dancing or at a bar to witness this...Heck I've see this happen in Grocery Store before.)Hum? Is this being deceptive? Maybe it is, and then again maybe it's not? I don't ever get the facts of what was really going on, for all I know it's all innocent and they were talking to their mother who is in town who wants to spend more time with family. On the other hand, it could be a spouse that is tired of being lied too. Who knows, but what I do know... it does spark the brain to come up with some outrageous, off the wall, I can't believe you would think of that, type of twisted plots that result in one heart shocking outcome. My inspiration to add places and descriptions that are the surroundings of my characters, come from many things throughout my life, both past and present. Then having the right music playing as I sit before my computer, brings the words from my soul to my fingers to then type it into my windows program, and before I know it the words are alive in front me. So as you have probably already realized, the Chapter I am in the process of editing right now, is about a woman scorned and her plans for revenge.

This makes the title of today’s blog, “Temptation Tuesday” an excellent choice of words. But don't be fooled folks, I heard you, "Wow, did she just tell us what the book is about and who did it?"  No, I didn't do any such thing. I promise you....You'll never in a million years believe who did it. To me, there is nothing better than giving the reader a great read with the shock of shockers in the end.