Characters You Care About

Nina and I talked it over and asked a good deal of questions and we've decided to not let Red n' Ritten have “Through A Rain of Fire”.  It was a pretty tough decision, because I was really hoping the deal would go through.

Red n' Ritten demanded more rights than we were willing to give which was what drew the line.  In one way I'm kind of glad that something came up that stopped it.  I'm not saying that I don't think that Red n' Ritten would have done a good job with the book or anything.

But Nina and I have had a dream of going big with this novel right from the start.  I can't say why, but it's like that's what we ultimately want from the novel.  Something large.

I think it's also that these books are our babies.  We love them.

I'm realizing that as I'm finishing NaNo.  I've loved writing in November, but I'm having a tough time getting through “Gumpaw”, my third novel this month.  It's light and funny—a detective story about a dog. But as I'm writing the humor and the laughs I'm realizing just how much I love the books that I write with Nina.

I realized just how much I loved “Strike in the Dark”--another NaNo novel I did.

I love the depth of those books.  These books...  Peter has this deep and marred personality, and I love it.  It gives me the shivers and I love it.  The depth of the emotion—that raw passion.

Nina and I were talking about personalities the other day and she brought up the fact that Peter seems to be pretty emotional for a Thinker.  (he's an ESTP)  I thought about it and I realized that yes, he does feel a lot.  But it's very ST feeling...deep.  And no only deep, but when STs feel emotion it's...  I can think of no word to better describe it than 'raw'.  There's no softness on the top.  Just raw emotion.

I love that.

I also love the power of the novels.  Talking to my sister last night I realized how much I missed writing the vivid imagery of “A Fire is Woken”.  It was a huge challenge writing that book, because I saw the whole thing in my mind like a movie.  And then trying to write it was hard because to try and get that imagery down on paper...

But I miss it.

I can't wait to get back to working on them.  I also like being able to take my time and write my heart into every word.

I don't know what I'll do when we finish the series.  I think I'll miss them a lot.