Romance Novel weblog by Carolyn Jewel

Writer's Diary

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Uh oh. I thought I had something to say!

I made back the 1000 words I cut yesterday. I rejiggered chapters 12-15 which were all in the wrong order and started writing the new bits. Alexandrine is turning out to be quite the interesting woman. First off, which I may have mentioned, it turns out she's a former teen drug addict. Second, she has no problem whatever taking action to get what she wants. And she wants Xia. Today at lunch time, she got in the shower with him.

I'm trying to think of a Romance in which the sexually assertive one is the woman. I know there are some. But not so many. Most of those women are Evil Exes or just Evil. That's always bugged me, so I'm happy to be writing a heroine who takes charge of herself without de-alphabetizing the hero, too. (Xia loves it, by the way.) Especially since all my heroines start out their lives as total wimps. This is my writing challenge.

Anyway, I'm in the middle of The Ritual scene which, I am happy to report, does not end at all the way Xia and Alexandrine hope.

Labels: writing freaking writing, Xia