Taking It From The Beginning

Taking It From The Beginning – the steps involved in writing a romance novel from the very beginning stages. A part by part process of the creation of a romance novel. You can also subscribe to the feed and stay up to date on all the entries in this fun series of posts following Laurel through the creation of a romance novel.

Taking It From The Beginning – Part 16

Sometimes life interferes with writing, or my creative muse is stifled by day to day activities or my argumentative teenagers.  Sometimes, I’m just too tired to bring my characters to life.  This is not writers block.  It is life.  The Holidays are coming.  Every second that I get to steal away and write will be precious.  But I know that writing will become harder and harder over the next couple of months.  My mind will be elsewhere. With that being …

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Taking It From The Beginning – Part 15

Chapter 9!  The vampire who had turned into a man from drinking Quinn’s blood is tied up in a hotel room with Quinn while Kurt goes for supplies (and probably lays out some traps for the blood suckers!).  The vamp/man tells Quinn he can feel he’s changing back into a vampire again and demands her blood to stop the change.  He tells her that her blood is like a drug and he can never have enough.  That doesn’t sound good! …

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Taking It From The Beginning – Part 14

I’m on Chapter 8 now!  The vampire that has attacked them and drunk Quinn’s blood is now a human man.  She is a cure for vampirism.  Of course, Kurt is going after Joe.  He can’t let the vamps have him.  Kurt gets Quinn and the now human to another hotel.  He makes sure they’re safe and starts preparing to go after Joe.  Kurt is worried about leaving Quinn alone with the human man.  He’s worried the vamps will come for …

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Taking It From The Beginning – Part 13

Chapter 7.  In this first draft, I have Kurt and Quinn have sex in this scene.  Part of me thinks this is way too early, that the uncertainty and distrust is still too raw.  But…they are alone and very, very attracted to each other.  There are no vamps after Quinn, or so they believe.  I’m not sure whether it fits here yet.  So, guess what?  As in chapters before, I wrote “sex scene” and will decide in another draft whether …

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Taking It From The Beginning – Part 12

Chapter six.  It’s time for Kurt and Joe to fight the vampire coven.  Unfortunately, this week I didn’t feel very much like writing a fighting scene.  There were a lot of distractions in my life, so I didn’t have time for a full on fight.  I simply pushed it off for future writing by putting “fight scene” and moved on.  I’ll fill it in later. In this chapter, Quinn is furious with Kurt for leaving her locked up.  She slaps …

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Taking It From The Beginning – Part 11

Chapter 5.  Quinn is still having those hot dreams about Kurt.  I have her always waking from these dreams at 3:03.  Now, that is significant, but I don’t know why yet.  J  I’ll figure that out later.  Or in the rewrites.  Or take it out altogether. Joe suspects that there is a coven of vamps after Quinn.  He thinks if they bring her to Uncle Bobby’s that they’ll put him in danger, too.  Joe and Kurt want to find the …

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