Alright so even though I said I'd work on the sequel and even though I ranted that I do 10 words or 10 pages a day and I didn't care which it was, I sort of...skipped it last night. I don't even have a very good excuse other than I stayed up late playing video games and talking to boys (I'm only human after all). And today I have currently skipped but I have a valid reason for why.
I was baking cookies.
Yup. Cookies. Baking. Decorating. The works. For the hospital staff at Glendale Memorial in California for putting up with me for a whole month. And helping me to walk, learn how to redo things, the works. For Christmas. So I'm like a cookie Christmas elf. And since I still have to use crutches (or a cane but I want a bitching one instead of the boring one I have) my aunt came over and helped. And then we gossiped for a bit. BUT-
I fully intend to write more tonight. Totally. I had ideas for what I was planning on doing and had started it. This is where the spoilers begin (does it still count as spoilers if the book isn't written and only like 2 people have read it?)
(If you haven't read the first book none of this will make sense. That's ok. You can ignore it.)
Originally I started like three days after the end of 'Witch Bloom' and immediately had Connell and Rose jump into a business partnership. It makes sense. She does wedding flowers, he wants to bake cakes. One stop bridal shop. But looking back, that didn't quite work. Rose is just a touch prone to wallowing so I figured, after the end of the first book, the second book would find her well...wallowing. Which gave me the idea that maybe Celia would sort of take a starring role. I like Celia. I do. She's sort of the high school version of me (when I wanted to be a goth/punk girl but failed miserably). And she didn't get that much play in book one so I figure, why not make her important for book two? So she is actually the catalyst for Connell joining Miranda's Flowers (which is no longer Miranda's Flowers because she owns it now and that's too morbid even for me).
I also had about 50 pages of plot building where Connell convinces Rose to help him find his father, they go to his hometown, spooky campground, evil shapeshifters, Rose finds an unexpected ability, Francois ends up showing up, and then Rose decides she wants to be with Connell. All of that is out. All of it. Now let me explain why.
Connell is still trying to find his family but there is a reason behind it now other than 'hey let's go do this thing so we aren't in Boston anymore'. I like things to be motivated. And of course that turns out to be layered. Since I changed the ending for 'Witch Bloom' from what it was originally, I intend to use Francois more. So he will probably have to tag along from the beginning instead of showing up only to immediately be rejected. Evil shapeshifters are no longer straight evil but have reasons for their actions (because if you're a bad guy you never think you're a bad guy you think you're doing the right thing). Rose might still have some unanticipated side effects and of course some new-found abilities even though she still kind of sucks at magic. I figure in the heat of the moment instinct would take over and she'd be able to somehow fake it.
However, Rose and Connell are not going to get into an immediate relationship. I know I classified it as a paranormal romance book and I realize I skimped on the romance but this one I am sticking to. I haven't decided if they will eventually, if it will be in this book, or if it will never happen. It is obvious he is interested in the idea (as is Francois but I'm undecided on him) but my reasoning is this. She just got out of a seven year relationship with a douchebag but nonetheless, seven years. If she jumped into another relationship immediately it'd be more of a revenge fling than anything else. She needs some time to get her shit together and figure out her life since basically everything about it has changed.
Will there be tension? Of course. Will there be romance? Maybe some because I can't go completely cold turkey. Will she get with anyone? Undecided. And I am staying undecided. I'm just gonna write and see how it turns out. Speaking of writing...I should go do that now huh.
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