I’m at the point when I shift from point A to point B in the story. Point A was building up to the heroine slipping the experimental love potion into the hero’s drink (of course without his knowledge of it or else there wouldn’t be a plot). I’m finally at that point. Now I have to figure out what to do next before I can make it to Point C. I know what comes at Point C. So this hurdle is temporarily blocking me from making progress.

I will give it a couple of weeks to let my mind work on it before rewriting the last two scenes I did earlier this week. I got halfway into the last chapter before I realized Emma would never act the way I was just writing her. I had her attempt to put some of the experimental love potion into another character’s drink in an attempt to pair him up with the heroine. Then, late at night while I was in bed, I realized Emma would never mess with the experimental love potion. She’d been the subject of the first round of experiments, and that upset her to no end. So why would she do it to someone else? She wouldn’t.

I do like the idea of someone trying to match the heroine up with someone else. This is the best way I can get the hero to act before he loses her. Ultimately, I think the hero’s action is going to be important for the story’s ending. Writing most stories is like this for me. I have a beginning and an idea or two of what will happen somewhere in the middle. The process of writing is all about connecting those dots and then giving them an ending. Going in, I only had the idea that the heroine was going to slip what she believes to be a “working” love potion into the hero’s drink, and the result is her believing his love isn’t real because she manipulated things.

I like the idea of someone trying to get the heroine to choose another gentleman because it will bring out the heroine’s insecurities, which will develop her growth. She needs to be comfortable with speaking up for herself. All of her life, her mother controlled everything she did. That’s the basis for her insecurities. I’m thinking of bringing her mother in to manipulate things. That might be the best way to proceed.

Because someone I know really adores Logan, I am going to insert a scene in this story where we get to see Logan playing with a couple of his kids. I thought it might be a cute moment. (And I’ll make it fit in with the story so it won’t be jarring.) 😀 That’s one of the little snippets I have in mind.