Jennifer McKenzie
Romance--Boy meets girl. Romantic Suspense--Boy meets girl with dead bodies.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Whiskey Wednesday WIP Waant--er Rant
WIP--Work In Progress. War In Perpetration. Will Inflict Pain. You name it. My manuscript "Buried Illusions" (Or Hidden Grief or whatever the hell the name of it is now) has been the one work that has tested EVERY writer bone in my body.
The plot refuses to gel. The characters quit talking to me. The hero stayed two dimensional for the LONGEST time and then, yesterday morning, decided to inform me that he was actually a bad ass biker dude with a serious rebellion problem.
Stupid characters.
This damn thing has changed two--no wait--four times. And IT. WILL. NOT. DIE.
There are books that just flow and amazing things occur as I'm writing it.
There are books that give me trouble, but I have forward movement in it.
Then there's this one.
It's like a sore tooth that stops hurting but then comes back at me with a vengeance. It's the book of my heart....that breaks it everytime I sit down to write it.
It's the one story that has given me the most grief, the most pain, and the most work.
It's also the one I've sworn to finish before I start (or finish) anything else.
What was I thinking?
*sigh*. Yesterday morning, I started with 32,644 words and finished with 33,390. I don't even want to know how many I deleted and added while I was reworking that stupid Hero with his new look and snarky attitude.
I'm just a little pissy with these two. For two years, these characters have screamed at me, ignored me, crossed their arms and refused to speak to me, and totally disappeared.
I'm getting tired of them. Please, send out some good thoughts to me so I can get rid of these two.
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