A Difficult Task

I reached an unexpected sharp curve in the road while writing the sequel to Black King Takes White Queen. The sequel is tentatively titled Black Knight, White Rook. The Black Knight is Romney and Ivy's nearly three year old son, Ezra. The white rook refers to the white rook that attacks a creature and helps save the toddler's life at the very beginning of the novel.

This novel deals with another family relationship gone bad with an arrogant, dominant, and ruthless foreign black warlock thrown into the mix. This volatile combination with tear Romney and Ivy apart at a critical time in their marriage. Ivy will be driven to the brink of despair while Romney will be nearly consumed by a fury he will at times be unable to control.

Both of them want their lives to go back to how they were but neither of them has much hope that such a thing will be possible.

I have two weeks to work on this novel, and then beginning November 1st I will have to set Romney and Ivy aside and begin my NaNo novel that will require my full attention for the following 30 days as I take the challenge to write a 50,00 word or more novel by November 30th. This is my fifth year doing NaNoWriMo. The planned novel is sprawling in content and densely populated as the setting is an old grand resort hotel on the coast of Maine during the year or so when it's fate will be decided as the elderly CEO's health fails and his son who has a successful career as an architect in Boston takes the reins with it's closing in the forefront of his mind, but the young Public Relations Director/Events Planner has something else entirely in her mind-a renaissance for the grand old hotel.

Lots of writing ahead of me in the next month and a half before thinking about this year's annual Christmas story!