What is it? I hear you ask. It is, anything and everything, or nothing. That depends on you.

The youngest child suggested an idea for a novella today. (Yes, the youngest child is the one who suggested the Fates Entwined novellas, if you recall she hasn’t read those yet. Mostly because ME/CFS renders words to nonsensical nothingness – it is different for everyone – but she struggles to read these days.)
Anywho, the idea … she said, “How fun would it be to write a story from Ellie’s mother’s perspective? You could do that.”
I could.
To be honest it would be a tonne of fun. I could really let my imagination go nuts. Nothing would be considered too weird or terrifying. This is a woman that had the barest grasp on reality 90% of the time. Her version of life would be utterly fascinating. I can sort of see it like ‘Alice in Wonderland’ meets ‘It’ and that clown is probably driving Christine with Cujo riding shotgun. It’s a disaster waiting to happen which I think is how Ellie viewed her mother, a lot of the time, and for good reason. She’d fallen for her pleas and promises, they all did, far too many times.
Wouldn’t it be interesting to see the world from the mother’s view though?
How does she see her daughter? (I know Ellie to be kind, considerate, dedicated, contrary, a person not to be trifled with, and the person you want on your team when everything goes south but what does Mrs Conway see?)
How does she see her son? (I know Aidan is someone who Ellie thinks needs protecting, he’s Ellie’s responsibility, he does well at his job, he cares about people, he cannot handle hospitals, he hates Ellie being FBI because he’s scared he’ll lose her.)
Why does she persistently stop taking her meds?
Why does she put her family through hell on a regular basis?
What’s her why?
Sometimes playing with a character that is in the peripheral of your main characters life opens a whole new vista. 🙂
Will I write this?
Who knows? Certainly not me.
Currently, I want to dig into [Foxtrot Foxtrot Sierra] but that hasn’t happened over the last two days like I thought it might. To be fair, I have done a lot of things over the last few days. Had a lot to catch up on and it’s all done.
The [Veronica Tracey Spy/PI] books are all sitting here now, ready for the launch in April. Obviously, I don’t have the [Indigo Romeo Lima] copies yet but I will soon. I’m waiting for the ‘Fates Entwined’ books to arrive. Pretty sure they will get here this week. I may end up getting a few more of those closer to the launch date. We’re launching three books at once.
Such fun!