Weekend Musings

As Mark and his brother are engaged in playing paintball all weekend, I have nothing much to do but housework, catching up on my reading, and writing.

I just finished Julia Quinn's latest, It's In His Kiss, and a fun read it was. I'm going to sad after the next one, as it will be the last of the Bridgerton siblings, and probably the last Bridgerton book. It put me in a regency romance mood, so I ventured out to Starbucks this morning (lamenting the fact that I don't have my new espresso machine yet, and so had to venture out) and then on to Borders, where I picked up Victoria Alexander's latest. It's good, but not as good as Quinn's, and after an hour and a half, I'm regency-d out for the day.

So where does that leave me? Well, as the sky appears to be clearing, out on my deck nursing the last of my grande caramle macchiato and writing on S&S. I have the Batman Begins score playing in the CD player for appropriate mood music. It's going well.

Very gratifying indeed, even if I haven't touched the housework yet.

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Shit. I hate when that happens.

I'm writing, and things are going swimmingly, and I get to this kind of crucial point that I need to make sure ties back into the new stuff at the beginning, so I go back and re-read, and I realize all of the sudden that this character I created specifically to die, totally wants to live. I mean, I planned for her to die from word one. It was part of the story for her to die. She kind of dies "off-screen", but not really. Hard to explain, but she's dead, there's proof she's dead, the reader should believe from the stuff I have in her POV that she's most likely dead, and the other characters sure as heck know she's dead...except she doesn't want to be. And this diabolical part of my brain suddenly realized she doesn't have to be. She could be really useful later. If I wanted.

So now I don't quite know what to do. Should she really be dead, or should she be a tool to be kept in reserve and used against my protag later? Aaagh! I can't decide.

Damn it all, anyway.

Anyone out there with nothing to do today, want to give a small portion of this a quick read and offer up an opinion? Less than 3,000 words. I just need to know one of two things. Either you think I should:

a)End the scene where I'm thinking of ending it, leaving it ambiguous enough that she might not be dead, or

b)keep the ending of the scene where we know she's dead.

Um, it's contemporary fantasy, for those who don't know.