Writing On The Razor

My new heroine scares me a bit. She's tough. Really tough. She's violent. Very violent. But she scares me. I wonder about how I'll be able to redeem her in the end. Right now she has the hero as a captive and she's hurting him. In a bad way. Torture actually. She's that...dark.

I wonder what the hero will see in her to make him love her. Hard to do that when she's torturing his ass because she's sure as hell not letting him see her vulnerable side. She scares me.

That's good though. I like writing scared. It means I'm doing my job because if I'm scared perhaps the reader will be and will also be wondering all the same things about her such as "Holy shit...she just stabbed the hero! This is so not going to end well."

And yes...she did stab him. :S This is just not heroine behaviour

Like I said...she scares me.

A Little H2O

Some days you get surprised. Yesterday I was surprised.

Zodiac Series: Water has just been released in ebook format at Liquid Silver Books and contains The Midnight Hour from the Scorpio anthology. Oh I forgot this giddy sensation. To see your name on the cover. And now, a week before my birthday *squees in delight* And oh how I adored writing Mattie & Max's story.

I feel like a writer again. Oh heaven.

The Magic of Words

Grounded by another migraine yesterday (mutter mutter) I took my credit card off to Ellora's Cave where I bought a nice handful of e-books by Joey Hill.

A nice way to pass the day. So much so that when I woke up early to run some errands and have lunch with my mom, I said "Y'know, I'm just going to read today." Hung up and delved into book four of her Nature of Desire series.

And.

Oh.

My.

God.

I wept. I wept like a baby more than once throughout this book. Oh it was heart breaking. I still have book five to go but man alive, I love writing like this. Writing that will grab you by the heart and squeeze and squeeze until you're gasping for breath, wiping your nose with your wrist (sexy) because to move would disrupt it all.

Have I forgotten why I like writing? -frowns- Perhaps. As I told Kate Lang, "We overanalyze our writing so much. Do we have the right amount of conflict? What about tension? Oh god...how's my point of view. God, we need to stop doing that and just...write."

But as I closed the pdf and sighed with satisfaction even as emotions raced through my body, all I could think was "Yeah. Yeah." That's what it's all about.

Now to read book five then perhaps open up my own word file.