Forthwith I present an example of my creative process.

Premise 1: I have already established that Justine, head of Will and Absinthe’s former clan, fled to Sunnyvale, California after the death of Will and his parents so she could avoid prosecution.

Premise 2: I have also already established that Gemini, Velvette’s girlfriend and the person who vamped Pippilotta, has a distorted view of herself and her sexuality wherein she sees herself as a fat, sloppy slut.

What if Gemini was on a diet in an attempt to make her body conform to her supposed ideal shape?

What if her diet’s mainstay was skim blood [on the same principle as skim milk]?

What if the skim blood originated in California, a state with known hotbeds of health fads and image obsession?

What if the skim blood had, as most diet drinks do, a sprightly, misleading name like Sunnyvale Lite?

What if Sunnyvale Lite was invented by my only Californian character, Justine?

What if Justine wanted to spread the success of Sunnyvale Lite from California to the East Coast?

What if she chose Boston as a new market because she wanted to prove to her old hometown that she had reformed and become a better, successful person?

What if she befriended Velvette and Gemini and witnessed Gemini abusing Sunnyvale Lite out of unhappiness?

What if Justine seriously questioned her status as a marketing guru who sells superficial fixes and preys on people’s insecurities?

What if she began to suspect that she was still ambitious, impulsive, manipulative, callous and not really that different at all?