Almost Forgot...
So between being busy and being sick, I almost forgot I have a blog! LOL
Bad Angel.
Plus, I've been taking a bit of a break from doing anything mentally taxing now that Claiming His Wife is out. Of course I've been doing a little bit of writing, but definitely not at the rate I was doing to get that book out on time. I needed a bit of a mental break.
I have gotten started on Mastering Lexie though. I'm almost done with the second chapter and it's already more than 15K words. Woot! So that's something. I always have a bit of a slow ramp up before my writing pace really picks up at the beginning of a book. I think it's because everything's still kind of percolating in my head and the characters are still developing. The second half of a book always comes out of me MUCH faster than the first half.
Especially this book, because I'm dealing with a cliche subject (best friend's little sister romance) and I don't want it to be cliche. Or, at least, not too cliche, although some are hard to avoid. That's one of my big things though, is I'll read books that deal with these kinds of subjects and I get super annoyed about the cliches that are used. Like, whenever there's a guy who digs his best friend's little sister, she's always super innocent / naive / likely either a virgin or has never been with a guy that actually managed to make her orgasm, and he's always a super experienced player who is trying to resist temptation because he doesn't actually think he's good enough for her and knows his friend also doesn't think he's good enough for her.
So going into Mastering Lexie, I already know that Lexie is not a virgin. She's had good sex before. She's definitely not innocent although she might be just a little bit naive. And while she's inexperienced when it comes to BDSM, she has experimented a bit with her previous boyfriends. Patrick is definitely not a player. He doesn't flaunt other women in front of her and hurt her feelings / use women to try and replace her. He's a good guy and he wants a relationship. He's just not sure he can have one with her, and it's not because he thinks he's not good enough for her. Although I won't get into the reasons on here, because I don't want to give away too much of the book =)
But yeah. One of the things that I love about writing is "fixing" the things about other books that bother me LOL. I want my characters to be realistic. Andrew's really the only player character that I have, and that's going to cause some trouble for him eventually. I'm really not into the whole "players are sexy" and the idea that the right woman will make them change. It'll be interesting. Personally, I'm looking forward to seeing him get schooled a bit, although that's not going to happen for a while. But that's a tease to look forward to!
Anyway. That's what's going on with me! Fairly immersed in the Stronghold world right now. I'm also doing a little bit of work on the Marriage Training book. I might be changing the name of it just to differentiate it from the Lit story. We'll see. And I'm working on getting the Venus Rising Quartet edited so that it can be re-released with new covers (thanks to RaineyCloud9 who has done some gorgeous work on them!).
Bad Angel.
Plus, I've been taking a bit of a break from doing anything mentally taxing now that Claiming His Wife is out. Of course I've been doing a little bit of writing, but definitely not at the rate I was doing to get that book out on time. I needed a bit of a mental break.
I have gotten started on Mastering Lexie though. I'm almost done with the second chapter and it's already more than 15K words. Woot! So that's something. I always have a bit of a slow ramp up before my writing pace really picks up at the beginning of a book. I think it's because everything's still kind of percolating in my head and the characters are still developing. The second half of a book always comes out of me MUCH faster than the first half.
Especially this book, because I'm dealing with a cliche subject (best friend's little sister romance) and I don't want it to be cliche. Or, at least, not too cliche, although some are hard to avoid. That's one of my big things though, is I'll read books that deal with these kinds of subjects and I get super annoyed about the cliches that are used. Like, whenever there's a guy who digs his best friend's little sister, she's always super innocent / naive / likely either a virgin or has never been with a guy that actually managed to make her orgasm, and he's always a super experienced player who is trying to resist temptation because he doesn't actually think he's good enough for her and knows his friend also doesn't think he's good enough for her.
So going into Mastering Lexie, I already know that Lexie is not a virgin. She's had good sex before. She's definitely not innocent although she might be just a little bit naive. And while she's inexperienced when it comes to BDSM, she has experimented a bit with her previous boyfriends. Patrick is definitely not a player. He doesn't flaunt other women in front of her and hurt her feelings / use women to try and replace her. He's a good guy and he wants a relationship. He's just not sure he can have one with her, and it's not because he thinks he's not good enough for her. Although I won't get into the reasons on here, because I don't want to give away too much of the book =)
But yeah. One of the things that I love about writing is "fixing" the things about other books that bother me LOL. I want my characters to be realistic. Andrew's really the only player character that I have, and that's going to cause some trouble for him eventually. I'm really not into the whole "players are sexy" and the idea that the right woman will make them change. It'll be interesting. Personally, I'm looking forward to seeing him get schooled a bit, although that's not going to happen for a while. But that's a tease to look forward to!
Anyway. That's what's going on with me! Fairly immersed in the Stronghold world right now. I'm also doing a little bit of work on the Marriage Training book. I might be changing the name of it just to differentiate it from the Lit story. We'll see. And I'm working on getting the Venus Rising Quartet edited so that it can be re-released with new covers (thanks to RaineyCloud9 who has done some gorgeous work on them!).
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