Hey, look! A writing post!

Yup. Here it is. Just skip if you don’t care about writing and such.

So I’ve been working on On Bold Adventure, another road trip story, this time with a hot-tempered former soldier (yes, Richard Sharpe) and an intelligent earl’s daughter who knows what she doesn’t know (yes, like me, only with boobs and prettier. And not as hippy.). They’re on the run from a variety of People Who Would Do Them Harm, and I have to continually up the conflict.

There is currently a fight going on between hero and Evil Villain Cousin who wants to get his slimy hands on Our Heroine’s Fortune. Then E.V.C. will be injured, and H/H will have to be on the run from that, too; so what other danger can I put them in? They don’t have a lot of money. Perhaps they could lose all their money? How would they survive?

Many people are after him, a fewer number but higher titled people are after her, and I don’t want to just have them tromping (and romping) through the forest on the way to their destination.

Suggestions?

Thanks–

Megan

Tonight, like so many of you, we’ll be watching the Debate. Got nothing really to say on that one, except I am astonished to find myself so involved and passionate. I’ve always thought of myself–rather dismissively–as kind of laissez-faire. Not anymore.

I got good feedback from the Delightful Phone Friend regarding On Bold Adventure, which I’ve been working on consistently. Still no word from those editors to whom New Agent sent The Book Formerly Known as Road To Passion to; but at least I haven’t gotten resounding thumbs down.

So I must slog on. I’m not much of an optimist, but I am trying.

Megan

*with apologies to Elvis Costello.

So if you’ve come by recently, you might think I am just a vain so-and-so what loves to show off her gowns, her family, and her recent ink.

Not so, grasshopper.

So in the WRITING thing, let me just say my new agent is pitching That Subtle Knot to editors this week. And that I am HALFWAY DONE with the super-sexy novella, because I have discovered a new place to write that feels more creative than here in front of the iMac. And, thanks to the Faux Critique Partner, I have come up with a much more complex reason my hero in On Bold Adventure is on his particular mission.

Yay!