A new muse!

I had to drive my boys out to Cliffs of the Neuse today for a Boy Scout outing, which, I might add, gave me a fresh look at the vision for my story's bonfire scene.  On the way back, however, I heard a song on Sirius' Hit Bound program called "Breakeven" by The Script.  OMG!!  I love it!!  I got their album and listened to it all the way through twice and it gives me all kinds of ideas for things to write about.  There are lots of songs that inspire scenes in my head, story ideas, or something I'd like a character to say, and now I've got more added to my arsenal.

I finished reading Tempted this morning.  Ugh, they leave off with a cliff hanger again.  I hate that.  I liked that each book in the Twilight series could stand alone if you only wanted to read one.  The House of Night series really isn't like that so much.  I've read the first 6 and it's only covered about 2 months' time for the characters and the books all leave off with some kind of battle erupting or some other traumatic event occurring and you have to wait for the next book to find out what happens.  Guess it's a way to sell your books.  I don't particularly care for these, but I've invested so much time in reading them that I figure I should find out what happens next so I might as well read the next book.

Well, I have a house full of boys at the moment and I have a test I need to take for one of my classes before the weekend is over.  Guess I'll do that first and then hope it hasn't crushed my mood so much that I can't write.  I wrote about a page this morning, still working on filling out my supporting characters some more, but I didn't have time to do much before I had to leave to go run some more errands.