Thursday, July 28, 2011

"Help!" Shouts Lady Aruleius

"Wait, wait, I'm on my way," I reply.

How cruel of me to have put a fictional female in danger and then abandoned her to the wiles of an attractive fictional male.

Sometimes the way to move a story forward seems too difficult, too tedious.

However, I am determined to get to the HEA this romance story requires. And to save the fair maiden at the same time.

Right now, my Lady Aruleius has been kidnapped and is imprisoned in a dark, musty dungeon--for her own good, of course. Or so her captor, the arrogant and insufferable Viscount Randell tells her.

Did I mention, she is a beauty and not quite the proper lady she pretends, and he is handsome and not quite the altruist he pretends? So what does he want from her, and what is she willing to give him?

Sunk into ennui, I edit and re-edit already written pages and then escape into one of my new Georgette Heyer books. But guilt clouds my pleasure.

So today, I pledge to the muse of writers, I will write one new page. Tomorrow I will confess my success or failure.

From my story to yours.

Susan

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