Falling Back In Love

You know the worst combination of anything in the entire world? Allergies and editing. I've been working on the manuscript this whole week and it has not been fun. Not only because I've been adding things and moving things around, but because it's been about a thousand degrees this week, with our lovely winds, and my allergies have come galloping back full force. To add to the horror that has been this week, there's a rather large spider somewhere in my tiny apartment, one that smells like Febreeze and Kaboom, one that may be dead. In the five months that I've been living by myself, I haven't had to deal with any spiders and I considered myself lucky. But leaving the patio door and window open all day has caused my luck to run out. So now I'm tiptoeing around my apartment, trying to edit and not die.

So, the whole adding things to the novel. Awhile back (and I know I've mentioned this), I had an idea of what I could do to prepare everyone for the third novel while also adding more information to this book because I knew there were some things missing. But I could only do so much with Amory as my narrator. She's stuck on Earth with no chance to make it back to Heaven, so I had to get creative. I had one chapter dedicated to another character in Heaven, but that didn't seem enough for me, especially because that one character also had a limited view and none of that view had anything to do with the villain. So I decided to add a few chapters of another character, this one in the thick of things, and now I have to add those scenes while making sure it all meshes well with the entire story.

What. Absolute. Fun.

I've been rewriting this morning and I like what I have down so far, but it's going to be a process. Not only because of the writing, but I've realized something the more I write this character: I don't like this character. I mean, I'm not supposed to like this character because he/she is kind of a jerk, but do you know how hard it is to write someone you don't like? Every little thing he/she does, I roll my eyes and laugh because he/she is such a jerk. So this is going to be not only a rewriting, but also a little vacation for he/she and I. I've changed the entire end of the series (perhaps...still not entirely sure), and I'm going to have to fall in love with this character before the end. But it's not going to be in this novel. He/She is still going to be somewhat of an a-hole this entire novel, but I'm just laying the ground work. The healing process between us has already begun and hopefully it'll work in my favor.

But now I'm going to get my actual day going, since I just realized the time and I need to find that stupid spider before I start cleaning. Because I don't want my neighbors to hear my scream when I find it while vacuuming. They heard enough of that last night while I sprayed the crap out of the offending spider with cleaning products.