I believe Cursings and Musings has a post about characters running away with their writers, and it's so true — although in this case it wasn't Faith who ran away from me, just my creative little brain. In the first draft of SENTINEL, though, Callie totally took me off guard by confessing to a murder! I'd intended to have her profess her innocence but she quietly admitted that yes, she'd killed her ex-boyfriend. (As it turns out, she didn't...but it's a moot point, anyway, because that part got edited out. ;) ) It's funny to think about characters as being in control of their stories, but in a lot of ways, they have more control than the writer. Weird, but true.
Oh, and in more writing news, I also wrote Jason and Faith's first love scene last night. Yowza! ;)
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TOPAZ status: Working on Chapter 18. Things are flowing again, which is great.
SENTINEL status: Ideas are germinating.
5 comments:
Woo! Happy to hear that TOPAZ is flowing. And I just bet that love scene is steamy! Can't wait to read it!
LOL...yeah, it's not making it onto the forums. Pretty sure it's well above the PG-13 rating... ;)
So sad that it's over the PG-13 rating.
I'd like to be able to read this stuff. :P
Ah well. Glad to hear you're ideas are flowing. hehe
I love when characters take over. Sometimes it just feels like I'm along for the ride. It's almost guilt-inducing, because you don't think you can take credit for such awesomeness. But if you don't, who will? The fictional character spawned from your imagination? Don't think so.
But it's good to hear you're flowing again, after struggling so much recently. And I'm glad I'm not the only one who uses the word yowza. ;)
I have to say, writing the love scene in first-person was tough. The scene isn't as hot as some of the romances I've read -- Gena Showalter comes to mind -- but it's R-rated for sure. It is a romance novel, after all... ;)
Thanks, Lexi. Generally, I find I struggle after "big" scenes and/or when I know where I want to get the story to, but something's missing. I figured out a few big plot points recently, so things are looking up. And there will be more developments that will take people by surprise... :)
Thanks for reading the blog, guys!
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