WIP Wednesday!

(I just realized it's not actually Wednesday. Oops.)

Edits and rewrites mean the word count rises very very slowly. But, since I've begun I've added nearly 12,000 new words! Here are some of them.

“The man lost his arm, not his life,” Bryan scoffed, while Esther lowered her head. A laugh threatened to emerge from his throat. Instead, he gritted his teeth until his jaw ached. 

Plenty of Changes

Edits on The Resurrected Thief are coming along nicely. I'm about 1/3 finished. However, the biggest thing for me is all the re-writes. I don't mind doing them. Sometimes they can be enjoyable. It just takes up a lot of time as you try to smash together the original concept and the new ideas, or just do everything over from scratch.

The structure of The Resurrected Thief and the entire series has undergone some changes since I started writing. First, the ending is completely different. Same villain, but a new resolution. It works better within the overarching themes, which have also changed slightly. Plus, there a few scenes which are down right terrible. Two men talking about college times while a mummy attacks? Not good at all!

I also have a tendency to write scenes out of order, and then reassemble into the first draft. Rewrites fix all those awkward and clunky transitions. In the end, the entire book is a much better read. 

If I didn't spend all that time rewriting, the final book would be long winded and jarring. No one wants to read something like that. 

Love is in the air!

First, I hope everyone is enjoying The Red Crown and The Lost Prayers. If not, go buy a copy! Right now, Nisa and Cayden get a break while I return to my Gaslight Hunters. Edits are heavily underway, and I should have some good news on that front one of these days!

But in the midst of all this, I got thinking about what makes a good romance plot line. Most books have them these days. Both Our Fathers and Resurrected Thief have some. Nisa and Cayden do not. Romance is not my all time favorite genre, but I do love a good love story like any other gal. There are three plots/tropes that absolutely get me every time.

 First, I love it when a couple in love just runs away together. Elopements are a lot of fun. I just adore that wild abandon and it can lead to so many adventures.

I'm also a total sucker for when something tragic happens that tears the lovers apart. Usually worlds apart. Remember the Tenth Doctor and Rose? I cry like a baby every time when they start banging on that wall.

Finally, and it's one of my favorites, I love battles during a wedding. Not just someone running in and saying the wedding has to stop. Give me chaos and murder! Give me a bride in a wedding dress wielding a battle axe! The wedding scene in Jupiter Ascending made me very happy indeed.

I have yet to find a book that checks of all three. So naturally, I'm going to write one myself. Over the past few days I came up with a very very rough outline. It should be fun to work on between the other projects. But with my record, who knows when it will be finished!