Scraps of Paper in the Wind

There is something to be said about a job that requires you to sit in a park on beautiful spring afternoons.

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So I was reading a book about writing erotica and the oft repeated advice was to find scenes you like and study them. So I got a copy of Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Cruse and Bob Meyer.
I was up until two reading it. For the fourth or fifth time.
I want to write like that. I want to write books that people can't put down when they reread them multiple times.

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Christmas is coming.

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I've decided. I'm going to do it again this year.
My working title is Finish What You Started

It's a poinent story about an aspiring author trying to finish, well, anything. Writing, knitting, house work, an updated resume....

and crank and crotchety and chemically dependent.

I can't remember if I took my meds last night.

Normally,if I miss a dose it's because I've run out and I don't have the option of taking a make up dose. I'd take some now, but I'm not sure I missed a it or what would happen if I double dosed myself.

But I was getting crabby before this so it isn't all the meds' fault.

I am a discovery writer. Not quite at the 'put characters on a rode and listen to them as the go down it' level but still pretty much a 'huh, I wonder what's going to happen next' writer.
Right now I'm at the point in one story where I need to reveal something and I have no idea, or too many ideas, what it is.
Basically the hero has been trying to figure out who is threatening a nanny and why. The answer is so the villains can replace her with an accomplice and kidnap the kids.
The hero dismissed the idea because her regular employers were on vacation. She didn't tell him about a temp job.
And I don't know who the kidnappees are. They aren't US citizens. They are probably arriving from overseas and their parents aren't inclined to call the cops or trust law enforcement. On the other hand they can't be so high risk that they would have protection.

I'm open to suggestions. For that matter I'm begging for them.

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Lottie is cutting teeth. An she learned at some point the her momma is ticklish about the knees. For awhile she would raspberry people to make them giggle.

She's progressed, if that's the right word, to chomping. Not nearly as much fun, at least on the receiving end.

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In case you were wondering where plot bunnies come from, other than glaring plot holes, missed opportunities and factual mistakes in cannon. They come form very strange dreams. Like a Dresden Files- Person of Interest dream where Harry Dresden and John Reese are trying to rescue some kids- from each other.