July 02, 2003
Hooray for villains!
I didn't manage much actual word count today, but I do have the Prince a little more mapped out in my head. He has a name that isn't TOO screamingly Celtic, and he has a description. I also pinned down a setting for the whole thing: Philadelphia. Or, as Alex now thinks during the opening fight, "City of Brotherly Love, my ass." Have I mentioned how much I love Alex?
Also figured out what I want to work on this month. I finally realized that if I just keep sticking Sword up on the list, I'm never going to work on it, so I'm being more specific. Besides which, this Beltaine scene has been a thorn in my side for months. I already know it's going to be the first seriously sexual encounter between Tiernan and Catriona (although, true to genre form, it won't end up as actual intercourse--unless the two of them overrule me on the subject *grin*). This is the stuff I've been nervous about writing ever since I started writing this damn novel. Given the encounters the two have had so far, I'm not sure this is going to be a sweet, soft-focus, Vasoline-lensed scene at all.
And damn it, I WILL write it this month.
