I'm still working my way through the first draft of Courting Cassandry, my next Hearts in Autumn romance. I rarely succeed in sticking to an outline, and that is proving to be the case for CC, as well as all my previous books. I think I have a loose idea of where I want the story to go, but I'm already encountering some twists and turns with my characters that I wasn't expecting. Only more time will tell where these new characters are planning to take me.
In the meantime, here is a sampling of new sentences from Courting Cassandry this week.
Monday: (Gerolt, comparing
his late wife, Aveline, to the heroine, Cassandry): Aveline had
fluttered and hovered around Rauffe in his illnesses, but Gerolt had never once
seen her embrace the boy as Cassandry was doing now.
Tuesday: (Cassandry is still having trouble with her
teenaged daughter, Egelina): Having flung this cryptic remark at Cassandry,
Egelina left her mother standing with utter befuddlement in her face, crossed
the hall stiffly to the staircase, then ascended them at an undignified run,
leaving a sob floating on the air in her wake.
Wednesday: How could he know? Of course he could not! And
yet a quivering, wounded corner of her could not forgive him
for not knowing anyway.
Thursday: She did not want to answer questions about her
marriage, but she had been too careless during their dance, and she knew Gerolt
had sniffed trouble there, as keenly as a hound sniffed out a fox.
Friday: (Teenaged Egelina to her mother, Cassandry): “I knew
you were insensitive and unfeeling, Mamma, but I did not know you were also a
hypocrite.”
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