Meet Shay and Connor

Today I woke up thinking about Connor and Shay. If you don’t know who they are, you will soon. Connor and Shay are the MC’s in the book that Natalya and I are currently working on called, “Silently Waiting”. This book is written a lot different than the last one we did, but it’s all a learning act. We are having a lot of fun writing these guys, and I’m so absolutely in love with them. We are starting to come to the end of our first draft, and I’m a little sad about that. I guess this feeling comes from the fact that I know once we are done, that’s it for them.

When we first started writing this book, Shay became my MC. He is the light of the story for me. While I love Connor, Shay is my man. =) Natalya seemed to really enjoy writing Connors part right from the start, so we started writing this book in tandem. I will write Shay’s part, and then Natalya will write Connors part. At first it was really hard, but I found as we went along, it became a lot easier.

I also feel that it makes the book a lot stronger. The reason I feel this way is because we really get the differences in the characteristics of the two MC’s because they are written by two different people.

Shay is a quiet, shy guy who has been through a lot in his life. He was in a really bad car accident when he was a teenager, which resulted in him losing his father and his hearing.  He started to isolate himself from the world and drown himself in self pity. He is a manic depressive, and has anxiety really bad. That is until he finds something, or should I say someone, to pull him out of his shell.

Connor has always lived the “normal” life of any teenage boy and his life continued to stay that way as he grew older…boring, normal and a complete lie. That is until he told his family he was gay. After that his whole world seemed to tilt on its axis and his life changed forever. His family disapproved of his life, his dad became a man he never thought was possible, and his mother ran like a scared kitten. So, he packed up his bags and moved away. Starting over with a new job, and with no family was hard. Then one day he met Shay, and he knew that no matter how hard his life was, he made the right choice. Even if Shay was ten thousand kinds of crazy!