Weirdness

It must be the hot weather, but I've been having the strangest dreams lately.

The first really sort of scary one involved me standing in the bathroom and curling my hair. Except as I looked in the mirror, my hair started to turn lighter, moving from the crown downward, and all of a sudden I had completely platinum blonde hair. (IRL it's very dark brown.) I have never, ever wanted to be blonde, although I still toy with the idea of going flame-red from time to time. But blonde! In the dream I started to freak out, and then when I looked back in the mirror, it was back to brown again. Strange.

But the one that followed after that was even more bizarre, although it would probably make a funny book if I could figure out the details. After all, who wouldn't want to read a novel about a group of middle-aged book club members (all female) taking on a bunch of suspicious characters running a resort who turn out to be cross-dressing werewolves?

My brain scares me sometimes.

Well, fuck

I got rejected.

Very politely, and leaving off with the comment that another agent might feel differently, but....

I knew, statistically speaking, that I probably would not hit it out of the ballpark on the first try. But it still hurts. And of course this had to come right when I'm hormonally challenged, so I'm trying very hard not to cry right now.

Anyway, she said she loved the premise but that she thought the story lost momentum in the middle. So for those of you who have read it (and remember largish chunks of it), do you feel that way? Do you think it got too bogged down in the subplot w/Christa's father and stepmother? Should I have tightened up the tension between Christa and Luke, maybe complicated things by having Lucifer's lackeys Asmodeus and Beelzebub get wind of things and try to throw a monkey wrench into my lead couple's romance (I imagine the demons being motivated by simple envy, i.e., "if we can't leave, he sure as hell can't, either").

I really need some help, because it's with the largish plotting things that I have the most trouble. Obviously (at least from the feedback I've gotten for my numerous fics) I don't have a problem with the mechanics of writing, or with creating characters that people like. So any suggestions would be really helpful.

I am now going to go off and eat a large bowl of French silk ice cream and plow into that big hardback copy of the unedited version of The Stand I bought at the brand-new Barnes & Noble which just opened yesterday here in Glendora.

(And try not to feel too sorry for myself, but we'll just see how that goes.)

Oh, well, at least I have an interview Monday morning and the promise of a phone interview for a different position that same day (we're playing phone tag right now trying to get it set up).