Memoirs of an Immortal is taking longer than I expected. It’s also going to be longer than I expected, which goes along with the extra time writing the thing. The fact that the lovely Zara’s life spans a little more than 6600 years is another factor. It isn’t so much a matter of which periods to place her in as which to leave her out of.
I did make a conscious choice to keep her mostly out of biblical times or, at least, biblical events. Religious people tend to get upset when you make fun of their mythology, so Zara won’t be interacting with anybody found in the Bible. Not even the fictional ones, thought that, honestly, takes in most of them anyway.
It’s kind of a pity. Abraham and Sarah fall so nicely into the sort of story I tend to write, what with them being half-siblings who share a father. It’s always struck me as curious that the founding figures in two major religions were a couple whose marriage would be strictly forbidden by either of those religions (the third Abrahamic religion traces itself back to a different son of Abraham, whose mother was not the man’s half sister). My Sarah will not be meeting either of them.
It was a bit harder to resist inserting her into Esther’s ancient Persia, since historians are just about unanimous that this story is nothing more reliable than an ancient romance novel. The proto-rabbis who admitted Job to the canon themselves declared that story to be exemplary fiction; history says Esther is likewise fiction, for neither she, nor Mordechai, nor Vashti, nor Haman, nor anyone like them ever appears in Persian history. Still, I’d prefer not to find myself being burnt at the stake if the evangelical types ever manage to get themselves into power.
If Zara finds herself screwing any historical figures, count on them being long dead. She certainly won’t find herself involved with our current president at any time during his career. I like to think she’d have better sense.
One of my projects today was doing a thorough update on my website. I had my regular IT guy over, he of the salt and pepper hair and huge dick. He gives me a nice discount if I suck his cock. That’s something I’d do whether I got a discount or not, by the way, so don’t think it’s some sort of exploitation.
While I was working on Memoirs, I took a couple days off to write Left on Their Own, which has been submitted and is now awaiting cover design and publication. It’s the story of twins, brother and sister, left to their own devices by the parents, who’ve gone off to the big city for a will reading. It should be appearing at Lot’s Cave shortly. Once it does, I’ll link it from my site.
Lately, I’ve been thinking of writing a porn short subject script, then publishing it and inviting readers to shoot their own movie from it. I suppose the problem with that is that this sounds like some sort of contest scenario, and I have nothing to offer as a prize beyond a free, and obviously non-exclusive, license to shoot it. I may do it anyway, just to see what results.