More about Daydee

Daydee has come to meet with the sleaze ball lawyer. She's been through her mother's records and found a deed to land that she apparently doesn't own in the estate and the friendly guy that has been helping her, told her that her mother signed it over to the lawyer for legal fees owed. She has come to try to get written proof. In the conversation, the lawyer tells her that the sheriff had found remains of a body out on this particular farm. And they had decided it was probably been Daydee's father and that he had been murdered. So they were investigating Daydee's mother for it. The lawyer thinks she did kill him and makes mention of evidence that she brought him, but he asked her to take it away. He thinks Daydee's father probably deserved to be killed. Sleaze ball lawyer never produces transfer paperwork on the land. He tells Daydee it was for payment of legal fees for defending her in the murder investigation.

Daydee has agreed to hire the sleaze ball minister to open and close the graves and to do the grounds work on the cemetery for the time being. He wants her to put up signs around the cemetery and wants her to sell the bucket off the cemetery's backhoe to him for cheap. (Basically, handicapping her ability to hire someone else, or to learn to do it herself.) He is pompous twat. He reminds her of his moral superiority whenever he gets the chance and bugs her about buying a marker for her mother's grave, which she does do until late in the book.

The friendly guy drives her all of town and takes her to breakfast at the local diner where he introduces her around as her mother's daughter. And reminds the guys in the diner that she went to high school in town here. He tells her details and stories about her mother's business that she doubts that he would really know. The friendly guy has a wife with Alzheimer's out at the local nursing home who he visits every week.

I write all of these scenes down and then cut them up and lay them out on the floor of my studio and try to put them in dramatic order and find a structure. So you get to share the process.