Ted Butson's missing

Good ol' Ted. Cap'n of the football team is missing. He was at the Krebs Hollow party with a mass of other seniors the last we see. Clint and Kenny freaked the girls out with Kenny's electronic deer caller and the girls won't be happy until the guys check it out. The guys assured them it was just a deer. Maybe it was the alchohol, but the girls are worried and the guys agree to go check it out. However, they travel in a different direction than where Clint and Kenny are sitting.

It's only been two days--Pinky says he saw Ted's car parked just outside Krebs Hollow and the assumption is that he's just out with a girl or something. Just doing what comes naturally.

The rumors about Pinky and Pearl have become heated, but it's difficult for the women to work up the nerve to talk to Pearl about it. In fact, it makes Pearl tougher to be around. Pearl is, after all, Queen of the Busy Bodies. It's like trying to pull a Jedi Mind Trick on Yoda. But what's also revealed in what I like to call the 'Lion's Den' Chapter, is that Pearl is an incredibly intimidating woman. Helen innocently thought she could shoot the shit with Pearl and come away with another 'scoop' on the Pinky & Pearl Affair. Instead, Pearl starts asking her questions. Like asking if Helen's estranged daughter will be coming home for Christmas this year. And Helen can't wait to get out of there before Pearl eats her alive.

Emery pulls a 'Log Lady' and gives Luke a message. "It's here. And you're the one to stop it."--Which I think I may change when I can thing of something more poetic and after I've determined the nature of this killer. Part of me is playing with the idea of making this a little supernatural. We'll just play it as it goes. After all, that's what revision is for, right?

So I've got my writing mug. I've got my music. I just have to pick an angle and take off. There's Carol's son, Cameron. Did he get his parole? Is he coming home? Sure. It'll fuck with the Dillard's family dynamics and make an interesting addition to the conflict.

Then What?
We'll see when we get there. Let the writing take you wherever.

The many citizens of Greencastle

At first, I was systematically going down a list of characters. But then one morning I was looking to write a chapter strictly from one of the many characters' P.O.V. only to realize that there was no conflict to be had. Nothing was happening. It was getting tedious making a chapter for everybody. and It was lending itself towards telling and not showing. I also realized that I need to take my time and let the little conflicts happen and use them as a means to get to know the characters.(I was trying to hurry up and write up the character desrciptions so that I could get to the murder and mayhem) But this isn't how you make the characters sympathetic to the reader. It's how you tell and not show. I see this now.

SO--
We've created a place of mysticism and ooky-spooky legend:

KREBS HOLLOW
The story of Krebs Hollow began with a man who killed his wife and buried her pieces throughout that area. People later reported seeing ghosts and 'unnatural happenings'. But today, it's merely a hot spot for underage activities.
I stop and wonder about this being cliche... But then, it's based in reality. There was a guy by the name of Coffee headed out towards my folks' place and he'd supposedly killed his wife, cut her up and buried her in--Get this-- Coffee cans. No joke. That's the story. The other part is that every town has a place where kids go. Kids are always going to want to break some major rules, and they're always going to be looking for a quiet, unassuming corner of town to break these laws without getting caught. The trick will be how I write it. Style and approach(angle) will be everything.

ALSO:
The rumors are spreading like venereal disease... Sandy Nettles is missing, as is Randall Overmeyer. Sandy told her husband she was going to play bridge but she's never played bridge before in her life. With both of them missing and Sandy lying about her destination, it seemed only logical to Pearl Carter, Queen of the Busy Bodies, that the two are engaged in some sort of sordid love affair.

The mind reels.....