I just turned in ASKING FOR IT for the second time. It was a massive rewrite since my editor requested that I remove an entire subplot. I hope that this newest version meets or even exceeds her expectations. I should hear back from her in four weeks. In the meantime, I want to try my hand at some confession stories.
Archives for April 2010
Also, we’re getting a dog–an adorable tri-color Chihuahua–tomorrow. So there will be some adjustments to be made at the Willoughby household!
Books Out of Thin Air
I just found out that many of my books are available on the Kindle! How cool is that? It really makes me want one, a Kindle, that is. I have my Sony e-Reader, but Amazon makes it so darned easy to download books.
Stubborn Heroes
So, Joe was being difficult again. Recently, he refused to change professions. More lately, he’s resisting a personality makeover.
I was rewriting him to be a wounded hero both physically and mentally. In the scene where he and Livvy first meet, he was sullen, angry, and not quite reconciled with his disability. I really pushed that change through almost the entire book, but I can see now it’s just not him. He would not allow me to make him so self-absorbed, even with the excuse of being a paraplegic to fall back on. It’s easy to understand that that type of injury could take a very long time to adjust to, but Joe was determined to bounce back faster than I was making him. He would not, in short, be a jerk.
Writing is such an interesting and mentally unbalanced endeavor.
Also, isn’t this the most kick ass wheelchair you’ve ever seen?