My NaNoWriMo story was moving very, very slowly. I couldn’t seem to get a handle on my hero. I mean, I knew who he was, I knew what he wanted from life, I knew his back story, but dang if the man wouldn’t cooperate with the story. Luckily, my RWA chapter meeting was this weekend and I rode over to the meeting with Jamie and Elizabeth. As we travel an hour each way, we talk about plot points and other things.
When I was bemoaning the fact that my scenes in the hero’s point of view were not going well and that they were really much shorter than I liked, Jamie offered the advice that maybe the majority of the story was the heroine’s and not the hero’s and maybe he didn’t have as much to say or as long as a journey as she did and that maybe I shouldn’t be forcing the scenes to be longer. Well, shut my mouth- that made sense. Big time sense.
So, on Sunday, I decided to let the hero’s scenes be as short as he wanted and lo and behold, the story took off. He’s being wicked, alpha and irreverent. I love it.
From November 1-5, I wrote around 7,000 words in total for those six days. On November 6, I wrote almost 5,900 in one day. How wild is that?
Check out this dude: He’s the inspiration for my hero. He’s a Spanish bullfighter who used to be the son in law of the Duchess of Alba. And no, my hero is not a bullfighter, but he’s a Spaniard and he’s a grandee (aristocrat).
Jillian Chantal 