On a roll!

G'day All,

Sorry for the late posting today but I've been on a roll! Writing that is... finally, all the bitching and moaning about a certain novel I'm working on, is going to stop - for today at least. I gave it an ultimatum. I did. I told my MS it was going to be ditched in favour of a spooky new werewolf romp (think Red Riding Hood in a call centre). Well, my characters all jumped up and declared their commitment to my project and behaved themselves beautifully - well as beautifully as any of my characters do... mainly naughty really. I've just got to hope that what I've been writing isn't a load of old rubbish!

So other news, I've signed up for a Halloween blog tour, but I'll tell you more later.

I think, this might be a short little post for now... snatched between coffee top ups and finger massages.

Thanks again for popping by,

Tabitha x

Struggling with characters

As a writer, I share things with friends while I write. Well, recently I had to step away from book 2 in my upcoming Hot Bods series. I started this book quite awhile ago and on average I was only able to get out 500 words at a sitting. I kept having to stop and really think. This was different for me. With Fool Me Once, which is book 1 in the upcoming series, I had it written in two weeks. The characters Skylar and Drew were fun and just flowed. Now as I work with Adam and Amy on their story, I just want to get them alone in a room and have a long talk with them. Tell them to make this easy on me, or else...well I guess I can't really threaten them, I need them.

So, that's where my non-writer friends give me the crazy eye. Most say, "your writing them, what is so hard?"

I answer, "their story is just hard. I have to really think about it as I write."

Which in return, they just don't get. They wonder how their story is hard when I am the one who is creating it. And really, I don't have a good answer. It is just how it is, right?

For the first time had I to write an outline and that took me two days to just plan it. That did actually help. I think its the emotions with these two. It isn't one character chasing the other, its two characters who already liked one another. One with commitment issues and the other trying to play it cool. So, maybe that's it. I figure by the time I finish it, this will either be one of my best works or one of my worst. I am leaning for best. While I was actively working on this one, I felt the tingles in my body whenever these two were in a room together. I hope my readers can feel it too.

So, I have to ask. If you are a writer reading this, have you ever had character that gave you a hard time and how did you get through it?

And to non writers reading this, what are your thoughts?

See ya next Monday!

Lacey

Sometimes you have to sweat!

Hey, welcome to Spicy Authors. I'm glad you could make it today. I'm so proud to be a part of Beachwalk Press.
I'm having a hard time writing, so I decided to resurrect this old post from years ago. I changed a few things to make it up-to-date, but... Just goes to show how some things never change.

So then why do I continue to write?
I love it when the first draft of my work-in-progress seems to flow out of me. Sometimes the heroine and hero grab at me and won't let me go. It's as if their writing the book for me.
That's the way it was with the last book I wrote. It took me less than two months to finish the first draft of it.
Amazing, right?
Book three of the series (which is under contract with a different publisher) isn't going as well for me. And I don't really understand why. Usually I have a hard time writing when I'm not familiar with the characters. But I know the hero and heroine for this book; I've met them in the first two books of the series. Yet still I can't seem to get the story moving the way I want it to. I even resorted to handwriting out a outline, so I could see the story easier in my mind. (And I hate plotting.) I know where I want to go with my characters and story; I just can't seem to find the right avenue to get there.
I guess it's time for me to park my butt into my seat -- and write. I've been doing just that all morning, and I think I've finally wrote past my block. Maybe I will have this book finished by November 1 after all.
Good thing. The Dressmaker's Dilemma, the second book in the Winter Creek, Montana series, is patiently waiting for me to get back to it.
Oh, well.
Sometimes you've just got to sweat!