Writing books has always been easy for me. I've always been able to sit down, get my head in the right frame of mind and just start writing. The characters have always taken their good own time writing themselves, but the story has told itself. The characters have always changed what I had written for them, as crazy as it sounds. In the end, though, everything always came together and was perfect UNTIL these last 2 books. Trinity and Mick & Callie's Story.
Trinity started out when I had an idea for a lady who worked on antebellum mansions, victorian homes, restoring them. (I always loved the idea of taking a worn out home and refurbishing it to where it looked before. Like bringing life into it again. Where you could hear the home saying, "Yes, this is how I was before.") I know, sounds fanciful and you can't really hear a house talking, but, if you listen closely, and you know what you're listening for, you can. Anyhow, she's in her office one day with her partner when she thinks she sees an old friend walk down the street. She chases after him, but the guy shrugs her off. She tells her partner, Paul, that she had a past with him and what it was, and he shows up at her home. He find out she still thinks of him. The next day in a meeting with potential clients, she finds out it's the same guy, named Cade. On a tour of his home, although she doesn't know it's his at the time, she tells what needs to be done to the house and she gets the job. They also explore the relationship they could've had. That's where the story ends. I know that in future chapters, just when they are getting close, Cade's ex comes into the picture, to make waves in Trinity's life, but I just can't move past this.
In the meantime, I started Mick & Callie's Story. This started because I was wondering one day, if an ex boyfriend/husband/lover came back into your life after 15 years to make amends, say he's sorry, would you listen to him? Then I decided to expand on the story. What would happened if you were in a small town and he tracked you down, found out that you had a child that he didn't know about or want to know about, and wanted to make amends? Would it change anything? What would then happen if the gentleman's ex wife came into the picture and was threatening you both? Would you protect your daughter and ex girlfriend? Would you try to get your ex wife to see the saner side of life? Would you say "screw it all" and walk away from everything? Mick is a cop. He's never gotten over Callie. His exwife Dina told lie after lie and he listened and believed everything she said until the lies came unravelled one long night. Mick knows he has to find Callie, so with the help of a P.I., some court records that just came to light, and a chance glimpse of her, he find her, finds out she has a daughter that he was never told about. Then he finds out he exwife knew a lot more than she let on. Now, Callie's life is in danger because Dina is after her and the child too. Mick will do everything to protect them both and that's where I'm stuck at. I have his exwife in Callie's house, but do I let her kidnap Callie and take her somewhere to have Mick find her, or do I let him rescue Callie out of her own home? Do I have it where Callie's is near death, or does she kill the exwife and stands trial.....sooooo many questions, and no answers to help me out.
I do have other stories started, but these 2 are driving me absolutely insane! Just when I think I have everything planned out, the characters decide they won't cooperate and go in a different direction.
Don't us writers sound crazy?
