By the time I left Chicago Saturday evening, the 90 plus weather had started getting to me. I was a pleasure to arrive in L.A. and feel how light and cool the air was. I didn’t realize the effect of the heat until I was out of it. It was making it hard to write.
I had hoped to jump right back into working on the next Yarn Retreat book as soon as I got home, but all of a sudden it seemed like everybody around me needed me to do something and I struggled to write a little bit in the mornings.
This week is going by so fast I feel like I’m in a movie montage with the calendar pages flipping by.
I used the building of the house behind mine as inspiration for HOOKING FOR TROUBLE. I think it might be inspiration again. It seems like at least once a month we get a notice that some production company is shooting something back there. Just last night when I took out the trash, I saw the yard lit up for a night shoot. Because we are a little lower than that yard, even with the fence, we can sit bits of what’s going on. And certainly, we can hear someone yelling out “action.”
The first stuff they shot there was a mystery, but then one notice said it was a Sit and Sleep commercial and a shoot that went on for quite a few days with some sort of tent built in the backyard was for a new Showtime program called White Famous. I don’t know what they were shooting last night.
The house is on a cul de sac and their neighbors have to contend with equipment and trucks along with production people acting like they own the street. Though the production company probably is paying them something for their trouble.
Hmm, I bet Molly would be on a ladder looking over the fence checking out what was going on. And what if they were shooting a scene of someone jumping into the pool and there was a short in the pool lights and the someone got electrocuted . Accident or on purpose? Molly would be sure to find out.
I guess it is true that ideas come from everywhere, even my own backyard.
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Of course someone would try to drown Molly, and Barry would have to save her--but then we don't know if he can swim. We do know Mason has a pool...but one of his clients might be guilty, so he would just have to stand there and not get involved !
We have a house nearby that's often used for film shoots, though I never know what they're filming. It's on a corner and the parked vehicles often make traffic difficult there. But that's to be expected, living in L.A.!
Linda Osborn, or Molly could go after who did it and interrupt the film shoot causing some kind of chaos.
Linda Johnston, it does happen more often here, but when I was walking in my Chicago neighborhood, the Chicago Fire people were just packing up. And they filmed part of When Harry Met Sally in front of my building in Chicago. It is still tripping to me to watch the beginning of the movie and see my building in the background and then the corner where the businesses are clearly visible.
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