Meet Mr. Dude and Lexie. And Mini-Hiatus.

I know I haven't given any of you any real info about my story, so I'll give you a few details now. It's set in America, somewhere. Not sure yet where. As things stand now, it'll be a multiple point of view story, may or may not change later. The two main characters are an American guy, who's yet to give me his name, so I refer to him as Mr. Dude in my head. He's 19, with long-ish (for a guy) dark, curly hair, and green eyes. He's been kicked out of school for reasons he's yet to disclose to me. He comes home and finds his parents gone. Unfortunately, he tell me much, so I don't know why they've disappeared, if he even knows. He lives by a hilly park though.

My female character is Lexie. She's British, with bright red - as in British double-decker buses red - hair, which she normally keeps in two scruffy buns which she keeps up with pencils, and looks Mr. Dude's age. She's enthusiastic, energetic, quirky, happy-go-lucky, and a generally happy, nice girl. And we meet her in America. I could tell you a whole lot more about her, but I wouldn't want to spoil the story.

Mr. Dude has decided to give up a bit of info. He's informed me that he's a bit nifty with a camera, and that he was a Photography student. Thanks to a wonderful post over on Catherine Haines' writing blog, Working Title, Friends: A Brilliant Resource, I had a bit of a think, and realised I know someone who takes Photography classes; Vania of Reverie Media. I dropped her an email, and she kindly enough gave me some details of her course which I can use as a starting point when it comes to research.

If Mr. Dude -as I am calling him until he gives me his name - is going to talk about his classes to anyone, say Lexie, which he will, I'm going to need to provide some details. So thanks both to Catherine and Vania for their help on this! I don't think Photography will be playing a huge roll in the story, but his studying will, because, well, there's got to be a reason why he got kicked out. About that, he's been hinting, but I haven't managed to coax the whole reason out of him yet. Bloody typical. Lexie I know pretty well, but Mr. Dude? He just won't open up. *eye roll* Bloody men.

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I'm on a bit of a hiatus right now when it comes to writing. When ideas come to me, I'll make a note of them in my file, but a few things are going on right now.

I have some books for review I need to get read, and then I'll be holding Sex in Teen Lit Month over on Ink and Paper Specials, my book blog's sub-blog. Please check it out.

Until that's finished, I don't think there'll be too many posts on here for a while. No writing, or writing related stuff going on, there's not really a whole lot I can blog about.