Xxxxx asked:<\/p>\n
> How did you lose contact with your characters?<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
Well, what usually happens to me is they move and don\u2019t leave a forwarding address.<\/p>\n
Then, when I catch up to them again, they give me this\u00a0look<\/em>. \u201cSince the last time we worked together,\u201d one said to me just the other day, \u201cI\u2019ve met a wonderful woman, I\u2019ve got a good job, I\u2019ve got respect in my community. When I was working with you, I spent all day poring over ancient texts in languages I barely knew, and spent all night running away from zombies. And when it was all done, I had nothing to show for it but a half-dozen concealed weapons violations to answer for in the Hall of Justice, and the bill from a therapist who thought I\u2019d hallucinated the whole thing and should probably be institutionalized.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt won\u2019t be zombies this time,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n \u201cOh, of course not. I know all about zombies now. It\u2019ll be something else, probably that I\u2019ve never heard of. And I\u2019ll either lose my girlfriend, when I start muttering under my breath, or worse she\u2019ll believe me and spend two months as a target.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLook, all this is negotiable. Let me introduce you to\u2026 hrm\u2026 an ex-KGB emigre? A gun runner, so you\u2019ll never have to worry about running out of bullets again. You\u2019ll like her, she\u2019s a stunning blonde, eyes as blue as the sea, endearing mole on the back of her hand\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cCome off it. Once we defeat the weresnails or whatever it is you\u2019ve got waiting in the wings, we\u2019re supposed to settle down? I\u2019m an archaeologist, for crying out loud. She\u2019s supposed to give up her gun-running ring and watch me dust off potshards for the rest of her life?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWell, you could show her the error of her ways.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTerrific. And what are we going to talk about over the Sunday paper? `My goodness, honey, it sure is terrific being able to spend time with you without having to make sure I\u2019ve got a silver dagger where I can reach it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat could I say to convince you?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201d`I\u2019m writing erotica now.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Xxxxx asked: > How did you lose contact with your characters? \u00a0 Well, what usually happens to me is they move and don\u2019t leave a forwarding address. Then, when I catch up to them again, they give me this\u00a0look. \u201cSince the last time we worked together,\u201d one said to me just the other day, \u201cI\u2019ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}