I was thinking about someone I knew who reminded me of Gatsby (The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald) and the reasons I eventually felt sorry for him rather than hated him. He's dead now but I wish he wasn't although I would still feel sorry for him if he was alive.
He was the ultimate manipulator and it didn't bother him and I still don't understand why it didn't bother him. He was intuitive and brilliant but he never looked in the mirror of his self. Why?
One day I'll probably run into him again (he wasn't evil  and he deserved a place in the 'heaven' I think we go to) and I hope I can talk to him again. I don't like feeling like that about anyone and I know Fitzgerald didn't either. And when I put down some of Fitzgerald's other books I wonder if he realized that he'd become the very person he most didn't want to be.
Anyway, on a happier note, I have to go to have a hearing test to see if I need to upgrade my hearing aids. Yes I wear hearing aids. And I'm very aware of them although no one else is, and I covet the newest ones that are almost invisible because I'm vain and I don't want people to think I'm old. Stupid I know, but then so is the idea of being old. I have outlived friends and family but I don't feel any older than I was when I started writing, forty odd years ago.

What makes us human?
How can a character in a novel become a human being?
These are questions I've been asking myself for some time now because I am writing about a character(s) becoming human.
In the case of three characters in particular I made them human by having them go to the bank in Paris and opening a bank account in their names. In the case of Gregg Gregory (who was human to begin with and who became a character in I WILL STAND ALONE, I made him human by giving him a passport.
But is that enough?
What makes me, or you, human and if I make myself or you a character in a novel does that change anything?

I am considering making the Gregg Gregory novels a separate series since he's not a character in these books and he marries Marilyn in the second novel. They can both become characters in the first of the Women In Love novels.

A fantastic day for writing. The sun's shinning and it's bright and the spring flowers are coming up and I have four books that need to be written or finished.
I want to separate the Gregg Gregory books from THE WOMEN IN LOVE SERIES and I have a feeling I will need to, because there are going to be more than two books. And I already know there will be more books in the Matt Chritchley Mystery series.
There is a great deal to do, then, and I will be busy all summer. Which is probably a good thing I suppose.

Today is the first day....
I could spend the whole time I have for writing this trying to make excuses for not writing or I can just start and take my chances.
I am in the midst of writing four different books. Three for the Women In Love series and the first of the Matt Chritchley Mysteries, A Death In Paris. The series just keeps writing itself and I am obliged to tell the story that the characters create. But at some point it will branch off and there will be other stories related to, but not directly concerned with, the series. An example would be the way Diana Gabaldon wrote the Outlander series then the Lord John series.
It happens that way sometimes. I know that when I'm trying to sleep and I start thinking about something that I wrote or that I'm writing now I see all kinds of possibilities for the direction the story takes that I didn't when I was awake or when I was writing it. One of my short stories, Meeting Moreau is like that, I know there's something I need to do with it but I'm not sure what. In my daydream or prequel dream I turned it into a novel but I'm already too busy for that. Maybe one day. It's on my bucket list for 2013.
For now however I have to reconcile one event in three different books beginning with Galen mentioning the even and Gregg Gregory anticipating the event and finally how the event unfolds.