I jest in the subject line but it's true.  I wrote the story for Halloween.  It was short.  It came to five single-spaced pages, and it is more violent than anything I've written--but it's for Halloween so I didn't want a tame story.   I will post it up on Thursday.  But after I saved the story and went on to The Wrong Husband to finish chapter three, my mind kept drifting back to the thriller.  I know why things happened the way they did but no one else ever will unless I write it all out.  To test whether or not I should even waste my time writing more to it, I wrote the next couple of chapters and got attached to my characters and storyline.

I've been in a toss up since I finished Eye of the Beholder.  This hasn't happened to me before.  Usually, I pick another story idea and complete it in 2-3 months.  It's weird.  But maybe I need a break from romance.  I've been writing them non-stop since last time this year when I wrote my first one. 

That being said, and felt, I'm going to write the psychological thriller.  I haven't decided on a title.  I am thinking Double (when you read the first chapter--which is the short story), you'll know why.  But somehow, that title doesn't seem to hook anyone to wanting to read it.  If I was a well-known author like Stephen King, I could slap on any old boring title and sell millions.  But for an unknown, I think a the title is going to need lots of work.  But I'll go back to that after I complete it.  I hope to finish it next month during the National Novel Writing Month that I signed up for.

My other issue is making up a name.  Now that I've associated my real name with romance, I don't want it to go under a different genre.  I was playing with J.B. Pearce, J.B. Russell, or E.J. White.  The first two are based off of initials of relatives.  The last one was based off a character I made up when I was 12.  I want to do initials for the first and middle name.   But I haven't seemed to get something that clicks yet.

So we'll see how my "vacation" from romance goes while I "visit" a detective who is searching for the serial killer who seems to be able to be in two places at once.  (Hence, my original thought of "Double" for the title.)