I envy people that can plot every chapter of their book before they start, seriously I do. My best writing buddy does this and I have to say I’m in awe of her skills.
I’ve tried to do the character wheel, goal motivation and conflict to help me out but it doesn’t work for me.
I tend to go for walks in the early morning with a germ of an idea rolling around in my brain. If I’m lucky it will simmer away nicely until there is something to work with. It might be one sentence or a name. I wrote my first rural romance from seeing a sign on a fence naming the station if surrounded.
That is when I sit down and my fingers start racing over the keys. If I’m lucky it will flow nicely. Some days I have to literally pull the words out as I go, some days the words pour out.
With RED HOT, it was the location that first struck me. I had a trip to San Francisco and fell in love with the coast road. It took my breath away. I knew I had to write a story set in that area. I let it sit for a while and before I knew it, Red was knocking at the inside of my head. Once I started writing it came together quite fast and I didn’t see the outcome of the romance until it was almost at the end of the story.
Total pantser through and through. Even my characters tell me what to say.
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