I'm glad you're enjoying the story. But you do realize that if you don't try to figure out what I'm doing, you won't be half as surprised when I do something totally different?
Just to warm you up (and because I found the line absolutely hilarious) here's a fragment from chapter 16... (Which, yes, means I'm writing seventeen at the moment...)
Sorry, I just had to... I love the line too much to let it languish, in the dark...
Out of curiosity, for those of you that happen to be authors, how many of you have character that control the story? And, more importantly, have you ever had one set of characters leap 'ahead' of where the others are in the planned storyline?
I'm having a small problem, you see. Ronan and Jason are taking a nice, long, leisurely courtship to their first kiss and beyond. This was planned. The 'gathering storm' which is going to become one hell of a climax... is not taking a long, leisurely pace in it's building up. It's moving too fast, too quick. And I'm not sure how, or even if I can, slow it down.
Which means that any number of scenes that I thought were 'locked' in place... might not be
Anyone else ever have this problem?