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Okay. Emo fit over, dammit. If nothing else I have English Country Dance today and Sorcerers are not invited. Not even the ones I love dearly much.

I have also successfully finished the character survey of DOOM! It only took me all of yesterday to finish it and several days before that to start it and get halfway through it, but it is done. Things I need to do now include:

1. Make playlist, both character (songs) and novel (scores).
2. Fill out side character sheets.
3. Keep Astrid from sidetracking me onto Greg and that issue there.
4. Fill out crime scenario sheets.
5. Fill out villain sheets.
6. Fill out suspect sheets.
7. Choose setting
8. Scene by scene outline
9. Exercises

10. Get distracted listening to early 20th century German cabaret, check.

On the plus side, at least I'm getting a sense of this character's formative years. At least a portion of them. Next up, I think, is researching the Wellsley Girl of the 1950s and then figuring out what Astrid was doing between then and the last... ten, fifteen years. Which, I know what she was doing then. And try not to waste too much time on it while I fill out what's really important, which is to say the current line of stuff. Oi. And now Astrid's complaining about me to kikibug13's main character from her Nanonovel.

I'm going through my movie scores now, though. Pulling what I want, and I really don't think the sword and sandal epic soundtracks are going to go in. Somehow she just doesn't strike me as a sword and sandal epic kind of a girl. And the more I listen to the Beowulf score the more I think this is true. Oddly, Batman Begins has made the first cut, possibly because there's so much standing around on high places and brooding. For those of you interested in contributing suggestions (oh god no, Beowulf is not going on here. If I ever do a dragon wars novel, it can go there) Astrid is blackstonerises and I have, at the moment: Batman Begins, The Crow, Beowulf, Blade and Blade II, Narnia: LWW and Caspian, The Craft, The Dark Knight, Firefly, Serenity, Gladiator, Hitman, Iron Man, LA Confidential (which would be perfect for Pen Bryton but I don't know about for Astrid), Last of the Mohicans, Pan's Labyrinth, Rome, Romeo and Juliet, Stardust, Transformers, Troy, Underworld, Underworld 2, 10000 BC, 30 Days of Night, 300, and Stargate Atlantis. Also Labyrinth, Ladyhawke, Legend, Last Unicorn, Lord of the Rings Fellowship and Two Towers, Dark Crystal, Last of the Mohicans, Mission Impossible, Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest and At World's End, and Sin City

I also am being told that I need a bottle of wine for this. Possibly because Astrid is fond of wine, and I'm trying to remember which of the Biltmore wines I favored, but buggered if I can remember.

What else do I need. Possibly to hit Sam's Club and get some novel-writing snacks, but we're doing that next weekend anyway for game snacks, so I have until then to come up with suitable novel-writing snacks that will keep for an entire month. I have faces for Astrid's little brother Sascha (no, not Kapt' K) (although I was so tempted to use him as the face it wouldn't work with Astrid's PB) and I think for Astrid's uncle, although I'm not as sure on that. Still, her uncle started out as Christopher Lee and he might well continue that way. I need to make up my research list, maybe get a binder out for such things and some folder tabs. Actually that'd probably be a good idea. I have a bunch of early-mid 20th Century German cabaret music now that makes her bounce around. It's just... Well, on the plus side, I'll probably have enough for the novel?

As long as I can get to work developing the actual murder mystery plot. On the other hand, Astrid's more vivid now than she has been in a long time.

Oh yeah, and I need to get back to learning German. Heh.

And, appropriately enough: Dragons.