"Congratulations, It's a SNI!"/Teaser Tuesday

(AKA, Shiny New Idea, for those of you that aren't writers).

For those of you that know me, you probably know of my inability to never stick to one story for long. Just like when I read, I have to be reading 5 books at once, not 1. Well, it's the same with my writing (I have a short attention span, so sue me! :P).

So, today, instead of sharing another teaser of "The Angel Experiment", I thought I'd share with you a teaser of my latest SNI. But before I do that, I thought I'd also share with you how this newest story came to be.

It was just this afternoon, as a matter of fact, while I was in the shower, agonizing over what I should write to keep me excited while I plug away at TAE. And it was in the middle of washing my hair, that the idea occurred to me. It wasn't just one idea, it was kind of this big pile of ideas that I've been playing around with for a few days that all kind of came together and said, "make a story out of us!" Now I won't say what the story is about just yet cuz I don't want to jinx it so early on in the writing process, but I will leave you with this little gem (AKA this week's teaser), that came into my head as I was putting the pieces of the story together:

If I were at an AA meeting, my intro. to the group would be a little different then everyone else's. Instead of saying the traditional, "Hello, my name is Rumor and I'm an alcoholic," mine would be something like this: "Hello, my name is Rumor and my boyfriend tried to kill me."

Bet you didn't see that one coming, did you?

Well, neither did I.

~Ella

P.S. Props to Bruce Willis and his wife for deciding to name their daughter Rumor, how awesome of a name is that?! :D

"The Angel Experiment"

It all started with a smell.

Last night, (8/8/09, to be exact), as I was playing fetch with my dog in the alley in front of our house, I caught a whiff of a strange smell floating on the breeze. It was an unusual smell; it was sweet, like flowers, mixed with another scent that I couldn't quite place. Well, I was so intrigued by the stange smell that, (like most random things tend to do), it got the wheels in my writer's brain spinning.

And then, soon after I detected the strange scent in the air, I heard a strange noise coming from behind me, like rocks hitting against our wood fence (now, looking at this logically, the noise was probably caused by rocks being flung out of the Chuck-It I was using to throw the ball to my dog, but I like to look at things from a writer's perspective, it keeps things interesting :)), making me feel like I wasn't alone...

And then, (and this next part was totally the icing on the cake), these words floated to the front of my already overcrowed brain: I smelled him before I saw him.

And that was when I knew: I had to follow where the night's events were taking me: I had to write the story connected to the smells, the noise and the fateful first line.
I had to.

And so that, precisely, is what I intend to do.

Now normally, I title my new stories using the name of the main character, but in this case, since I haven't been able to come up with a proper name for my MC yet, I've decided to title the story using the name of the subject that I wish to explore: Angels.

And since this perticular project feels more like a fun experiment then a story, I've also decided to refere to it as such, therefore dubbing the title of this story "The Angel Experiment".

Crazy how things work out, huh? :P

Welcome to the world, SNI (Shiny New Idea), it's wonderful to have you here! :)

Stay tuned for updates!

~Ella