Exploring Characters

Lately the story I have been working on has been an interesting exploration on characters. I am actually writing about two couples in the same book – gulp! It’s been a different experience juggling four points of view and two romantic conflicts. Luckily, both couples are dealing with one mystery, so that at least is a relief for this author.

And the fun thing so far about this story is that I am writing by scenes and not by my normal gauge of word count. And it has been liberating to say the least.

The biggest change is juggling who gets to be the main POV in each scene. Now I have four characters fighting for center stage.

And I still need to figure out is how long this book will actually be – when you have two couples to get together, it might end up being more words than I originally planned. But I won’t worry about that now – I’ll write the scenes and keep moving forward until the end finally shows itself.