Happy Wednesday
- CP Fraise author
- Jul 28, 2021
- 3 min read
Hi guys,
Sorry for the no post last week but I didn’t have much to report. This week is the same but I thought I would come on here anyway. I need to stick with good habits and this is one of them.
I hope wherever you are, things are going well, and if they are not, here is a big squishy hug just for you. The weather has been amazing for a July in Ireland, I even went swimming in the Irish Sea last Wednesday, something I hadn’t done in the 14 years I have been here. This week, the weather is changing and I am writing this as rain is pouring outside and we have thunder (another rare occurence).
Writing update: I haven’t really been able to write for the past two weeks. I have phases where I am fine and then things start bubbling up, and thought I should know the signs, anxiety and then depression still creep up on me. While talking to my writing friend yesterday, I realised that a safeguard my brain has, is, when it considers something is not good or won’t work, it blocks me for continuing. I was giving her the example of a pullover I knitted for my boyfriend three years ago. Before I made the sleeves, he tried it on. And because I decided it didn’t fit right and wasn’t good enough, I haven’t been able to finish the sleeves since that day.
I have reached the same roadblock for Thibault and Jack. I am almost done with Thibault’s scenes and thought I really like them, especially the one I am writing now, it has become extremely difficult for me to write. It’s like wrangling a cat or herding them, I have two and it’s no easy feat. Anyway, the reason why it’s so hard to finish this draft is because I know I will have to wrangle the book together and I already know it won’t work. The mystery is flimsy at best. But my writing friend made a suggestion for the mystery a few months ago and I thought, that will be great for book 3, thinking I would push the mystery idea I had for book 4. But yesterday I realised that her mystery would actually work much better for book 2, some of the pieces I have would make a lot more sense with this as the mystery instead of my elderly gentleman’s murder. So, the plan for this week is to plot with the new idea. Then start again. I won’t start from scratch some of the pieces I have are good already. So I am going to do it much more linear, no more jumping from one scene to the next all over the place, I work better chapter by chapter. And with the help of my dictation app, I am going to rework the chapters already done and weave in the new mystery. I am very excited about this, which tells me I am going in the right direction.
It beats jumping to book 3 and never releasing a book 2 or writing a book 2 with no mystery, which are two things I really considered for a while.
So August will be a mix of me working on Marcus’s story and working on this new version of Jack and Thibault book 2. Hopefully, third time is the charm.
Reading update: I have been all about the angsty slightly dark romance in the past two weeks. It’s usually that or sad songs/movies when I am in the mood I was in.
Sloane Kennedy: I reread quite a few books of hers, all of my favourites. Wherever you start, you can’t go wrong. Just be warned thought, a lot of the characters have a history of past abuse and rape or child trafficking are often mentioned, so check the trigger warnings. The romance will really pull you in thought, and you will root for her men from start to finish.
Onley James: I read unhinged, first book in her new series all featuring pyscopath. If you have never read one of her books, I really recommend them. They are raw, full of emotions, they touch dark/hard subjects and her men are amazing. After unhinged I needed more, so I went onto ‘bad habits’ her collab with Neve Wilder. I haven’t read the rest of the series yet as I needed to reread one of my favourite books of hers called ‘exasperating’.
King’s criminals (the Kings of men MC book 3) by Ki Brightly and M.D. Gregory: This was my favourite I think of the few I have read in this series. I am doing them completely out of order and I am not sure which one I will go for next.
That’s it for me this week. I will be on an unexpected holiday next week, so no blog post but the week after you will get a blog post AND my newsletter.
Stay safe and happy,
Cel
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