Dead Boyfriend

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Title: Dead Boyfriend
Rating: Chapter One, PG-13. Overall, NC-17
Warnings: swearing, violence, and gay sex (though not in Chapter One)
Summary: Regan St. James is just your typical eighteen-year-old vampire hunter. He enjoys sharp objects and random hook-ups. But one night, in a quiet little mountain college town, he meets a guy named Ira who just might change his life. If he can survive Ira's relatives, of course.

( A vampire. A vampire Hunter. Simple? You've no idea. )

This is a story I started just for fun after all my attempts at writing books crapped out. It's also an attempt at subverting some of the cliches of the vampire romance genre. I'm curious as to what people think of it. All comments and constructive criticisms are welcome. Also, what do you think of the site design? It's a work in progress.

Writing is NOT a cure for insomnia!!!

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I wrote about this in my myspace blog this morning. Just thought I would write here too. It's not the same post...just starts the same.

Last night I had REALLY BAD insomnia. I didn't sleep a wink. I just layed there tossing and turning. My eyes woudln't stay closed. I was wired.

Finally at about 4 am I got up and sat down infront of the computer. I figured if I was going to be awake I might as well be productive. I wrote about a page or so of my novel and then tried to go back to bed (at 5). I laid there until 6-ish when I got up because I just couldn't sleep.

About that time the kids got up so I got them ready for school, made breakfast, fixed lunch, and helped my son finish his homework. After they were both gone (8:50 am) I sat down to write some more.

For some reason I just wrote. My fingers were flying across the keyboard. I wrote 4 pages in an hour. I didn't know that was possible! lol I finished the first chapter and then tried to get some sleep. I couldn't.

I sat down to write again but my brain had that foggyness that comes with lack of sleep. So I played around on the internet for a bit and then ran some errands. I did manage to get about an hour of sleep before my daughter came home from school.

I'm still wired and I might write some more. I need to sleep but I want to write. I was on such a roll earlier and if I had kept up with it who knows how much more I could've written. But I like to take breathers between chapters so I can get a good idea in my head of what I want to do with the next chapter. I should probably think a bit more before I write. Knowing me though as soon as my head hits the pillow the perfect words will come to mind. Then I have to decide if I'm going to pass out and hope they come back to me tomorrow or get up and write.

*sigh* Sometimes I get a bit obsessed with my work. lol