8/21/2015
Current Word Count: 235

Okay, so we all know I got Rafe drunk on Sunday night. And he spilled his guts. Well he only spilled most of them. He divulged a little more to me on Tuesday after write-in. This isn’t his story. It’s Nikeela and Felix’s. Nik is a shifter. She’s a redhead. She shifts into a fox. Lix… my goodness, Lix. He’s taken a few licks as a prison guard. But he’s risen through the ranks, and is now the warden. He’s a little older. Yeah. Anteros has a federal prison. There are two compounds – one medium security, the other is max. The bank robbers from Summer’s ‘Beautiful Day’ are about to be sprung from the medium security compound. Nik needs to tell someone. Her brother Vik is one of the conspirators to get the gang busted out of prison.

8/17/2015
Current Word Count: 3470

Okay, so I think I’ve got it figured out. I realized last week that Rafe isn’t necessarily a jump in with both feet without testing the water first kind of guy. He’s one of those people who likes to sit back and think things through a hundred ways over before deciding on what plan of action is best. Which is why he gets frustrated with Vella as much as he does – she’ll just jump in. Plus he’s been in love with her forever, and refuses to tell her because he has secrets and he knows if he gets too close to her, he’ll end up telling her. And it could end up destroying them. (This is going to end up being a much longer piece than I thought it was going to be. There’s a lot of backstory that needs to be told, and I can’t just insinuate it into the piece I’m writing for the Autumn BI Anthology. This is going to just end up being a smaller part of the whole – more like a chapter in the story over-all, if you will.)

Rafe is a moody-broody-dude. I already knew that. But I got him drunk yesterday, and he divulged a lot of information. A lot. And yeah. It could destroy him and Vella. And I understand now why he has a no drinking rule. It’s not just because even a little bit fogs up his forecasts enough to make them almost useless. It’s because that boy can not keep a secret to save his life. And he’s got a few.

Also: This isn’t quite as much Vella’s story as I thought it was. It’s Rafe’s. Sure, she features, and she’ll have some scenes too. But this is Rafe’s story. Which is why he was getting mad at me. Well, that and he doesn’t like to talk about who he is or where he comes from.

8/11/2015
Current Word Count: 3470

Unfortunately, some of those words over-lap. I’ve re-written a couple of scenes a couple times. Why? Because my character won’t talk to me. I can’t write him. Rafe is just giving me a blank stare – probably wondering why I’m pushing him so hard to just… DO something, to just SAY something. No wonder Vella’s always so frustrated with him. Well, it doesn’t help that she’s all about the action, and he’s all about the planning and thinking. Damn broody-dude. I want to wrap my hands around his neck and choke him. A friend suggested I make him react to something. *sigh*