Meredith,
the heroine in THE LAST MACKLENNA, has gone rogue. What the heck is she up to? I
don’t know. She caught me off guard. Don’t you hate it when that happens? It’s time to have a sit down, a come to Jesus
meeting.
I
understand that she is overworked trying to get ready for the launch of a new
wine and that she is stressed to the max over fear that she has another breast
cancer, but why has she allowed herself to be pressed against the wall by a
kilt-wearing, sexy Scotsman on Christmas Eve? This will only mess her mind up more.
She
blames her lapse in judgment on a glass of whiskey, two glasses of wine, and a
glass of champagne. Okay, two glasses. Along with dark brown eyes and an accent
that has her drooling. But come on, she’s forty-two for gosh-sake.
Wait
a minute, I resent that comment. A fifty-two-year-old woman or a sixty-two-year-old
woman could have that same lapse. It has nothing to do with age and everything
to do with chemistry (and alcohol). It’s not only
young women typically written about in romance novels who are sexual beings.
So
Meredith, enjoy being pinned against the wall by the force of the Scotsman’s
hips and forget about the security camera recording the goodnight kiss in the
hallway. Enjoy feeling young and beautiful and sexy and yes, healthy. Enjoy the
moment because tomorrow emails will arrive, the phone will ring, and decisions
will have to be made.
God
love her. It’ll only get worse.
And
that my writer friends, is one of the reasons we love what we do! We have the
power of the pen, and we can make our characters' lives (temporarily) miserable, especially when they go rogue.
If
you missed my writing & marketing tweets and retweets yesterday, here they
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- Five Easy Ways to Write Better Fiction http://ow.ly/gsEzE Very good!
- Get Your Novel Moving: Cure for Stagnant Openings: http://t.co/UFQMcJaJ @Lindasclare RT @elizabethscraig
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- The Most Overused Words of 2012 http://ow.ly/gsLiD My overused words are "fine" & "awesome." For 2013, I'm going to use different words
- Tips for satisfying story payoffs http://t.co/4emzUEZk RT @elizabethscraig
- Best Business Advice for Writers: November 2012 http://ow.ly/gsLvC via @janefriedman
- A Definition of Author Platform http://ow.ly/gsLAK via @JaneFriedman
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Happy
writing & running, Kathy
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