With Caution update week 4

Well, I’m back at it. After spending last week off I was anxious to get back to WC. Unfortunately, after a week off when I got back to it DIP Disorder hit big time. DIP is Deadline Induced Panic. The primaray symptom is tearing at your hair stomping around and yelling at your computer screen at the top of your lungs, “you suck! I hate you!”

So there I was on Monday, thinking about the plot and going, OMG! what now? So I write the VEPB. “OH god this sucks!” Dick: “It doesn’t suck, what’s up?” JL: “Jake needs to hint more at his secrets, or everyone will think he’s an ass.” Dick: “So add it in.” Yeah, add it in, sounds logical right? Just like a man to throw logic at you when you’re freaking out. sigh I start beefing up the scenes in Jake’s povs(point of views), showing his angst a little more.

OH GOD, it’s REMI, not Jake. Remi is the problem. panic! “DICK!!!” Dick: “Still doesn’t suck. What now?” JL: “It’s Remi.” Dick: “Why is it Remi?” JL: “Well because of this and this and this.” Dick: If you say Remi doesn’t see it that way, then he doesn’t. You’re in his head.” Yeah, I’m Remi’s brain and I don’t see it that way. Dick writes me later and says: “Add another scene in between chapter 2 and 3. Show Remi’s thoughts on the subject more clearly, then Jake won’t seem so harsh.” slaps head. Now why didn’t I think of that. Oh yeah, cause I was deep in the throws of DIP. Duh!

So, I change chapter 3 and send it to the girls with a note attached saying “Are you getting where Remi is coming from?” Bren, the smart ass, writes back “LOL must be the halfway point in the story, she always get’s DIP Disorder and the halfway point.” Rolls eyes I leave WC in the girls hot little hands and trudge onward.

Dick writes back having read the new scene: “Eewwwww! Don’t do that! Why don’t you expand on the second part of this scene. You already said everything you said in the first part of this scene in chapter 1.” sigh Damn Dick anyway, why does he always have to be right? I did say all that in the ch.1. I start over and expand the second part of the new scene and make it the new chapter 4. I like it, Dick likes it. Yea!

Then the girls get back to me. You always know it’s bad when they start the email with I like the story, but… Damn I hate that “but…” DIP comes back with a vengence. JL: “WAH! They hated it!” Dick: “Why?” JL: “Why? Well because it sucks!” Dick: (I can practically hear the sigh over the internet) “It still doesn’t suck and they haven’t seen the scene you just tweaked or the parts you added in for Jake. Just write it already.” JL: sniff “Sorry, I freaked at you.” Dick: (can imagine the growl) Just finish it. If it doesn’t work you can tweak it later. Yeah, he’s right again, damn him. I should just finish it.

JL: “KIMBER!!!!” Kimber: “Yes?” JL: “Read my outline and tell me if it makes sense…please.” I stare at the screen and type the same sentence several times, then erase it all together. Kimber writes back: “This makes all the difference seeing where you are going with this. The outline looks solid, keep going.” Big sigh of relief. Dick thinks it looks good, Kimber thinks it will work out. FORWARD MARCH!

Ch.6 Going good. A little panic over word count then I gave myself a pep talk. Just say what you need to say JL and who cares about word counts. First sex scene, just keeps going and going and going. I’m having fun. Not thinking about word count, not worrying about the characters issues that induced DIP. The first time in awhile it’s feeling more like fun and less like work. The characters threw mw for a loop today and made me do something I really didn’t want to do (change POVS) but I think it’s for the best. It feels right. I’m not worrying about it. And now, I’ve got to finish the never ending love scene. And lucky me Andre is home from work. waggles eyebrows That (an Andre) is always a good thing to have around after finishing a love scene.

Written by JL Langley

JL is a full-time writer, with over ten novels to her credit. Among her hobbies she includes reading, practicing her marksmanship (she happens to be a great shot), gardening, working out (although she despises cardio), searching for the perfect chocolate dessert (so far as she can tell ALL chocolate is perfect, but it requires more research)
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