Subject: Paranormal Romance
Info: BonyDee Challenge with
April Kelley
Word Count: 20K
Formal enough for you?
I’m at the point in my story where it’s coming
to the end, I’m struggling to write the max word count, though it’s not helping
that I know I have a minimum of 4K that needs to be writing in the middle and
start of the book. So I’m sitting at 12K but really that would be 16K if I’d
managed to write those sections first.
The fears I’m having, is what
I always have at this point. Does my story have a story? Is the plot working? Does
the love interest work?
So for me that last one is
where my fear sits much more, I am a romance writer. I am writing a romance. And
for me that’s actually hard, mostly because I’m a plot writer and therefore my
characters are just defaults, which means I know my plot works, it’s going
exactly where I thought it would be, but I’m not sure I’ve got the chemistry
and love between the two MC’s down.
This book it seems harder than
most, mostly because this is telling a story when the lovers are already
together, and happily together and this is the step forward from that. So my
fear? Have I displayed that? Have I put that into the story enough?
So now I’ve got to keep another 2K so that I
can have some leeway to add backstory. Add relationship littered into the
story. Right now I’ve written the bones, I’ve written the plot. And when its
gone through beta – and maybe a second as I think I’m going to need someone
with a different approach them my normal one, because I’m worried. I need to
know, and yet that one won’t happen until I have at least gotten it ready for
editing, and by then I’ll have add a relationship I believe I’m missing. Litter
it in good.
I want this book to work, and
knowing that now, now that I’m nearly done and yet so far from the end it’s not
funny. I think though, it’s great to have the fear especially when you have a
word count deadline. It’s better than having to cut things as I need to add
them.
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