Romance Novel weblog by Carolyn Jewel

Writer's Diary

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Slight Progress Is Made

I worked on my outline today. I've ditched some silly ideas and replaced them with less silly ones. The story shifted a bit, which is good. I have 15-16 scenes blocked out, all fairly vague of course, and I added a new character. Lord Whatever. That's what I'm calling him for now because, well, this is an Historical Romance and besides I still haven't settled on a title for the hero, except that it probably starts with F.

At one point, all I knew was something had to happen in order to make my hero propose in the next chapter. So that's what I wrote in the outline. Something happens to make LS propose in the next chapter. LS stands for Lysander Something since I'm pretty sure his name is Lysander and clueless for now about his last name. And his title starting with F. I changed the heroine's last name from Harrison to Harris. Because Harrison was just all wrong.

And that is progress.

The scenes in my head are getting clearer. I believe Lord Whatever (LW!) is going to make them even clearer. Good Lord!

And with that awful joke, here's a picture.