{"id":21,"date":"2020-04-27T03:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/GailLowe\/?p=21"},"modified":"2021-02-12T12:31:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T19:31:03","slug":"writing-can-be-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/GailLowe\/writing-can-be-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Can Be Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Gail Lowe<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow to Commit the Perfect Murder was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.\u201d
\u2013  Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m figuring out how to commit murder. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The method and weapon still elude me although I have decided on the location and time of day.  Disposal of the body is still a problem.  I researched for hours only to discover I had to narrow down my options.  Sometimes there\u2019s just way too much information on the Internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Does anyone monitor my Internet usage?  I have a chapter ready to show the police when they knock on my door.  Will they even knock?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sci-fi fantasy purged from a black heart \u2013 Gail Lowe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I must have a black heart for the terrible things I put my protagonist through.  But since comedy doesn\u2019t seem to flow onto the page, I settle for drama and find myself smiling when I get it right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Danger is just so interesting, and making people look over their shoulders is a sign of success<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe had always found villains more exciting than heroes. They had ambition, passion. They made the stories happen.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I write my villains late at night.  When everyone has gone to bed and the hallways have shadows.  A good villain makes the story.  A great villain gives me goosebumps.  I know when I\u2019m turning on the lights and checking all the doors that I\u2019m getting close.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You would never know it looking at me \u2014 that I commanded a Condor to rip the scalp off a man\u2019s head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 But really, he had it coming so it didn\u2019t bother me at all. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully we share a love of writing, reading, and my favourite: Day-dreaming. I get carried away daily, in whatever direction my mood is facing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Gail Lowe \u201cHow to Commit the Perfect Murder was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.\u201d\u2013  Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones I\u2019m figuring out how to commit murder.  The method and weapon still elude me although I have decided on the location and time of day.  Disposal of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,7,5,4],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-gail-lowe","tag-the-corner-lot-authors","tag-villians","tag-writing","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29,"url":"https:\/\/thecornerlotauthors.com\/GailLowe\/the-thing-about-stars\/","url_meta":{"origin":21,"position":0},"title":"The Thing About Stars","author":"Gail Lowe","date":"December 16, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The Winter Solstice, or Yule, will soon be upon us. 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