Today I've been thinking.
Spells is blocked out and I've been frustrated with the writing of it for the past few days. I'm reigning myself back in, a difficult thing for me to do. I actually stopped at a point today and did a word game. Go ahead and laugh, Janie, but some things do stick. I needed to create a different kind of feel for a scene and I'm re-thinking my villain. My original plot structure seemed too easily read. Meaning too predictable. This story is part mystery. In other words no one knows who the real villain is or why he is out to get to my heroine. However some very traumatic things have happened in her young life and she has learned not to trust easily which makes the companion in her life...well his job is extremely difficult. He's fighting a foe who knows more about him than he does his enemy. For an old soldier this doesn't sit well.
Now the question is how to thread this in such a way that I don't give away all the answers. I hate predictable plots where I know who the bad guy is right from the start.
I'm still scratching my head as to how to do this, but I've got to re-write my earlier scenes. The latter ones are okay but I need to make it more of a mystery. Poor Gwyneth thinks she is loosing her mind.
Perhaps she is after all...
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It seems like everything I want to do with this book is hard. I'll probably write this book a hundred times over before I'm done. At least that is what it feels like...laughing. I"m starting a flipping word bank. How many 'dark' words do you think are in the dictionary. I'm going to go read some Victoria Holt...I think she may have what I need. What do you think?
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