This was really fun to write. If you read my inspiration for Girl’s Night, you recall that I had never intended on making it a series past the first short story “Girl’s Night”, but after thinking about it, the idea for a series was perfect. My love of Charle’s Angels, including my interest in writing about the contemporary lives of four former high high school friends, the idea seemed perfect. When I was thinking of ideas to the follow up to the follow up, I had a slight bit of writer’s block. I was torn on how to connect the second writing to the “Pilot”. I wasn’t coming up with anything. Finally, I ended up taking a total departure. Though I definitely made references to the first, especially the story of Rita’s drama with D, but that was basically it. Girl’s Night: Disco Night was born. It was my direct homage to Charlie’s Angels and one of the most distinctive decades of our times: The 1970s.
I vividly remember being in awe of all of the decade’s icons, like Farrah Fawcett and John Travolta and in Disco Nights I made several references to them as well as other icons like Wonder Woman’s Lynda Carter, Loni Anderson, Wolf Man Jack, Erik Estrada, and Jimmie “JJ” Walker’s famous, “Dynomite!” And of course the decade’s musical icons: Bernard Edwards of Chic, Donna Summer, Van McCoy, Vicki Sue Robinson and the Bee Gees. I enjoyed writing the scene of Rita’s generational clash with a young Uber driver who seemed confused when Rita told him she was going to a 70’s party. See below:
The Uber driver was a young man, maybe in his twenties. He had long, curly brown hair. He was smiling at her through the mirror.
“Those outfits,” he said. “What’s going on in there?”
“A seventies bachelorette party,” Rita said, while touching up her lip color.
“Seventies?” he said.
Rita capped her lipstick, closed her compact, put it back in her purse and returned his stare through the mirror. “It was a decade, you know.”
The young man looked genuinely puzzled.
“When were you born young man?”
“Ninety-five.”
“Uggh, depressing,” Rita said.
“Huh?”
“Never mind young man. Thank you.”
Bell bottoms and platform shoes aside, Girl’s Night is primarily a crime drama and Disco Night’s focus is about a heartbroken, unstable woman running around with a rifle seeking revenge on the man that devastated her. Over the top? Yes, but what I hope is that it’s intriguing enough for you to stay until the last page. The unfortunate realism is, there’s a serious gun problem in this country that has to be dealt with. But this isn’t about politics. Girl’s Night: Disco Night is now available.
