Thursday, November 04, 2004
Well. The good news is The Rake is at 95,494. But I've reordered chapters. Twice. Mostly because I was reading along and it was fabulous until all of a sudden it was only good. I decided it's because GML comes on too strong, there's no up-tick in his behavior - or, rather, there's no up-tick in the stakes of what he's asking for. Remains to be seen if I'm right.
The most important thing is I have this extremely strong vision (is that the right word for a novel?) of GML being absolutely not interested in PE at the start. Just not at all, and I really, really have to make that happen. I am convinced that one of the things that could use a shake up in Romance is this tendency to have the hero and heroine interested in each other from the start. It's entirely possible to have oodles of sexual tension without the characters feeling it themselves. After all, it's a Romance, right? So it's a given that the h/h are going to fall in love, but that doesn't have to be obvious to them. I'm not expressing this very well at all. Maybe it's that lately it seems like one of the pair (H/H) is already in lust or love and we just watch him/her get what he/she wants. So, I say, do it different.
Anyway, all else completely uneventful. I don't even care about agents any more, and I haven't checked the PO Box in days.
