Character inspiration...

I know this blog has been pretty depressing lately so I'm going to ignore this damn cold and the fact I'm cancelling the rest of my trip and try to spruce it up a little with some purttty and at the same time pimp some of the characters I'm writing right now. I found this fabulous website with not only interesting articles but the most beautiful pics of men and not even naked men, mostly facial close-ups that are just stunning.

GAYTWOGETHER

 So I had - HAD - to keep looking and looking to see if I could find my characters and in most cases I really, really did.


Finally Home (Christmas story to be released on DECEMBER 27 at MLR Press)(sequel already planned out in my head)

Josiah 

(hair's a little short but everything else is perfect especially the innocent, puppy dog eyes)

 Wyatt

(oh yeah, that's Wyatt, look at those lips)

Perfection of Frailty

(working title - my NaNoWriMo story)

I've mentioned it before - Scottish/Tibetan vamp and his ill human lover

Kael

(sexy, loyal, Scottish warrior/Tibetan monk vampire)

(this pic doesn't show the long, flowing locks :P)

Lucas

(stubborn and in need of help)

The Lion, the Witch and the Wolf

(definitely not the title - just description)

This is another Christmas story I'm working on right now in hopes to have it published.

I'm subbing it to Storm Moon Press or Less Than Three 

- both are small and still accepting holiday stories -

and definite sequels are planned since it will only be about 10,000 words.

Can't decide which pub to send it to - advice anyone?

It's almost polar opposite to Finally Home 

- don't wanna give anything away but the first part involves a chicken. :P

Lucius the wolf

 Alistair the witch

Manny the mountain lion

Kristof the Kermode bear

And of course,

Outfoxed 2

(still working away on it but haven't found any better pics

of Rylan and Gage and the other bandmates so this pic

IS them - other boys to follow)

Glimpses of life, wips, vikings and Conan the Barbarian... NSFW

I'm back from holidays with a lovely sinus infection, ear infection and strangely enough my eyes are hurting too, plus a boatload of online drama as soon as I walked in the door. I'm trying to just move on but there's still some hurt and self-doubt but rather than dwelling, I thought I'd do a mostly gratuitous post to cheer me up, plus my muse has decided he's too sick to write, too. *pokes him*

WIPs - not the fun part of the post but here's where I'm at on what I'm writing. I obviously have ADHD issues and my muse cannot stick to one idea at a time - I shall learn to train him properly though... soon.

Glitter Fox series - about 15,000 words done on the next part - I've introduced a couple of new characters and decided Rylan and Gage are in for a bumpy ride. There has been and will be sex.

Cowboy Christmas story - No longer a Christmas story since I didn't make the deadline, well to be honest, I didn't try very hard. A week isn't very long especially when you're on holidays with your kids visiting so... I decided not to rush it and it's ended up growing bigger than it was supposed to anyhow. (I do have a problem with that - snickers) It will be the same story that I posted here but without the Christmas slant. Billy-Jo is still all angsty and let's hope Wyatt can do something about that. It's at about 11,000 words and I hope there will be sexy barn sex. lol

Scottish vampire - lost love story - I don't know if the guy in the pic is supposed to be a vampire but he sure as hell should be. *purrs* This story is only about 5,000 words so far but there are notes and stuff kicking around and Kael (my Scottish, Buddist vamp) is very vivid in my head. Hopefully I'll get to it sometime. There will definitely be loving sex.

Angel series - this isn't much of anything yet - a lot of notes but I know my first angel will be Anael, the Angel of Romance. I'm hoping to do a series about the different angels - I know there's other series out there but everyone writes different, right? I'm an angel-junkie so why not? *shrugs* Yep, you guessed it, there'll be angel sex.

YA story - nothing happening with this one right now but I'm quite inspired by the pic and I think one of the young beauties will be names Ivan. :) Probably just some first kisses and caresses and lots of eye-staring and shyness.

And finally, just when my muse has more than enough to inspire me with - and I partially blame this on the movie I went to last week, he gets this hankering to write some sort of barbarian-type romance. (cue the sexy Jason Momoa "Conan the Barbarian" pic) I have 3,000 words but my character isn't a barbarian but a viking. lol
Do you know how hard it is to find sexy viking pics - there are very few.:(

By the way, I loved the movie - my husband was not so impressed. He said Arnold's version was better *gags a little* because there was less dialogue. Lol - my reply "that's because Arnold can't talk". But I mean come on, only a guy would say Arnold was better than Jason - just look at the man. Okay, maybe that just shows my shallow movie choices and love of *ahem* talented (hot) men sweating and fighting and bleeding and just generally looking masculine and mean - don't get me wrong I love my sensitive, pretty boys too - I guess I just like a wide range of men. *snickers again* The theatre was me, some other women and all the rest were men - those women just didn't know what they were missing. The hair, the pecs (he never wore a shirt in the whole movie - swoons), the arms, the freaking hot "skirt and booties". I was ready to go back and watch him, I mean the movie, again. :P

He has a really great smile too. And his eyes always have this sexy, mischievous and gonna-whip-your-ass-for-killing-my-father look in them. *insert sniffles* One of my favourite lines was when he was with the princess-chick and he was like "Women, come here" - no apologies and no sappy "I fall at your feet crap" - he stayed true barbarian. And there was a sex scene - unfortunately with said chick - complete with boobs (lots of boobs in this movie) and his naked butt. Holy hell batman. *drools* Okay, I've gone completely off topic - a couple more gratuitous Jason pics and I'll move on. :P


There's this one...

And this one... (kinda graphic)

And this...

And *sighs* this one...

And finally a couple more.

And he plays this guy in Game of Thrones - or as my boys call it, Sex and Swords.

As for vikings, like I said pics are hard to find. But just think about how cool they are?

Cool ships

Cool helmets

Cool swords

Cool skins - lol

So yeah, I think I can write some hot, angsty, man-loving vikings without too much violence or bloodshed - maybe just in a you-saved-my-ass-I-love-you way. :)

There you have it - my mostly gratuitous, long-overdue post. If you find any hot viking pics send them my way and if you have anything you'd like to see on this blog, I'm open for suggestions - pics, videos, books, give me a sign.

Oh and I just happened to find a very gratuitous pic of Jason, I mean Conan's butt. :D

That was hard work, my head's aching now and I'm gonna go lie down - peace out everyone. :D
PS - this kind of makes me sound like all I want to write is sex but that's pretty far from the truth - the storyline is where it's at for me and if I can incorporate some intense emotion and heartache, I'll do that - then they'll have sex.

Team Vampire

Long before I cheered for "Team Alcide" on True Blood, I was definitely on "Team Vampire" in general. I grew up loving the fang-wagging, blood-sucking, hotness that were (most) vampires so it would only go to reason that I would eventually write one of my own. And that's what I'm doing.

My WIP is about a vampire named Kael. Kael is Scottish or as someone told me I could say "he's Scotch" but that brings to mind that he's made of hard mint candies or filled to the brim with booze, so let's just leave it at Scottish. He's a plethora of contradictions, my Kael is - he was a warrior and lived the warrior's life but he also resided for a few years with some Tibetan monks, hence the contradictions.

As all my writing generally is, this will be an emotional story and though I'm only 3,000 words in I'm already in love with my characters. I've heard writers say that it's hard to let their characters go when their story is completed and I totally agree. It's like raising one of your kids and watching them leave home - maybe not exactly like that but you get the gist. I'm beginning to think that a lot of what I write will end up with sequels and prequels and whatever else kind of quel I can think of. This has been the case in my fanfiction career and I'm already writing more to my Hot July Days story "Outfoxed" so I think that will be my future - having trouble letting any of my characters go.


Here's a few of my fave vampires.


Brad Pitt, "Interview with the Vampire"

Jason Patric, "Lost Boys"

Kiefer Sutherland, "Lost Boys

David Boreanaz, "Angel"

Alex Loughlin, "Moonlight"

Kyle Schmidt, "Blood Ties"

Alexander Skarsgard, "True Blood"

The vamp brothers of "Pathos"

Sein from "Vampire's Portrait"

The vampire brothers of "Kiss of Blood"
(Koyoi Wa Kimi To Chi No Kiss Wo)

AND - just a little gratuitous "Team Alcide" (Joe Manganiello)

DID I FORGET ANY? (and yes, I purposely left out the sparkly one)