I'd need to produce 3-5 pages a day.

A the H informs me that he'd be happy to switch our anniversary vacation destination from La Jolla to Arizona. (Sorry, Desert Cat: the timeline doesn't permit me to set the story in Tucson. I have to draw on my existing knowledge base of the Phoenix area in order to get this one done on time. So the main location will be one of the Fenix suburbs. I still want to introduce some small-town color, though, and I'm taking nominations for that. I want an excuse to really get some bitchin' landscape into the plot.

BTW, feel free to tell me what you know about the hydrology of Scottsdale/Phoenix: which bodies of water are natural, and which are man-made? Isn't one of them a salt-water river? Why?)

I think I know who my protagonists are. I just have to whip up a crime, and I'll be practically done.

Gotta go: time for a nap. (Seriously: I need to get my unconscious mind to work, here.)

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1 http://www.arizonan.com/Wickenburg/ There used to be a picture of an antique trailer home with *small* picket-fenced rock garden on this page. -B

Posted by: Bob at April 03, 2007 11:01 AM (CP6tB)

2 I seem to have to much time on my hands today. Okay it wasn't a rock garden, there're actually two trees in the pic. The Way-Back machine isn't always our friend, but today it is, even if your spam filter doesn't like it. http://[way-back-url]/web/20060508082225/http://www.arizonan.com/Wickenburg/ -Bob

Posted by: Bob at April 03, 2007 11:11 AM (CP6tB)

3 You have to have a character complain about the traffic, and the illegal immigrants, and the crystal meth. Uh, don't forget mentioning the pawn shops on every other block.

Posted by: Sean Hackbarth at April 03, 2007 08:14 PM (QJ5cf)

4 Funny--I've been going out there for 15 years or so, and I've never noticed any traffic whatsoever . . . nor any illegal immigrants to speak of. Hm.

Posted by: Attila Girl at April 03, 2007 09:26 PM (cJnPC)

5 Well here's a fun fact: Scottsdale recycles its purified poop-water back into the aquifer and then draws it up to serve its residents as drinking water again.

Posted by: Desert Cat at April 04, 2007 08:57 PM (xdX36)

6 Won't my characters be delighted to discover that? Thanks! Does the water from the CO river and the Salt Water River go through any desalination?

Posted by: Attila Girl at April 04, 2007 09:47 PM (6C0F9)

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