in which love like a sunset part one is featured

so, while i should be finishing the FINAL final (and i say that term loosely, because i always find words to cut and things to change) edit on one of my books, i am distracted by yet again a shiny new story. i have been banging away, researching, writing it out, falling in deep smit with a number of characters and revelling in feeling creative. and yet, i also feel guiltyguiltyguilty because i know i ought to be querying CODENAME: AMOF (which, after seven rejections, i yanked and re-edited the crap out of, and rightfully so, because the version i'd sent out SUCKED oh-so-bad).

(video found thanks to the rejectionist)

the video? that's me attempting to rewrite, yet again, a query letter. it's crazy how writers can hammer out stories and then stall hopelessly and pathetically on a simple query letter. the truth is? i suck at summarzing CODENAME: AMOF. argh. i so want to hire someone to do it for me.

as for the new stuff - oh, to cheat on your stories. makes you feel guilty, like you're cheating on your significant other, only you're cheating on a whole bunch of people this time who really only exist in your head and on paper.

i tell myself it's because my brain needs a week or so off of editing. going through, word by word, is exhausting. cranking out new stuff is easy.

anyway! with the new stuff (CODENAME: MO) comes a new playlist, very dark this time around, to be listened to over and over as i hammer out the details. so today i share a song that has driven several scenes of major revelations and character developments, plus has the added bonus of being an ear worm of epic proportions. it accompanied lots of research on weapons and fighting styles, along with staring at list after list of archaic names until my eyes began to cross. whew. peeps, it's really so much easier to make up your own character names.

phoenix has created a trilogy of songs around love like a sunset, but the one i'm offering is volume one. it's dark and clever, with the promise of intrigue and choices.

(image found on esty HERE)

(mp3) love like a sunset by phoenix (via fix up)