Challenging Characters

I think it was 2006 or 2007 when I initially signed a contract to write this story.

Then there came problems.  Problems in the form of my heroine, Nessa.  You see, she wasn’t ready. I put her through ten different kinds of hell in Hunters Heart and Soul, and I admit, it was fun.

So I guess this was her payback.

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Because I couldn’t write her book then.  After banging my head—figuratively speaking, and maybe literally—I emailed my editor, desperate, panicking.  Either this is a common occurrence or she was expecting this from me.  But she said I could wait.  I had other stories I could tell and she was fine with one of those.
So I waited.  I wrote a different book, although it might have been two?? Hunter’s Need, Fragile???

I finished up that contract and with the next one, I was going to write that dang book.

Then I had to do it again—was going to try it again in 2008.  But nooooo.  Then I think Veil of Shadows got in the way, although it could have been Broken.  Those characters were ready.

Finally in 2009, I was able to start working on it.  But the heroine fought me every step of the way. Now the hero, Dominic, he wasn’t so bad.  I can’t explain why, except maybe he just wasn’t playing a game of payback the way his heroine was.

Now, he was easy.  Even when his heroine was driving me nuts, Dominic just settled back and smiled. I only wish all characters were that laid back.  Although I guess if they were, the process of telling of a story would get too easy and maybe I’d take it for granted.

It would be nice, though, if they sometimes remembered who is in charge…

Oh, wait.  Groan…the characters are.