I had quite a successful day yesterday!

I did a lot of cutting and pasting on my LSB story. I would have done real cutting and pasting, and I t hink I would have gotten much more done, but my printer is out of ink so I had to resort to the modern version of cutting and pasting.

It’s odd to think a day successful when you go from 8,000 words to 2,000 words, but I know that the story is much better for it.

Well, actually there is a story to it now.

Sometimes I give my characters too much credit. I know that I create and control them, but I put so much faith in the fact that I do is well that sometimes I forget that they’re not real and I can manipulate them.

I spent 8,000 words with my characters doing the horizontal mambo and not a whole hell of a lot else. I kept waiting for them to tell me what to do.

But then I remembered - THEY’RE NOT REAL.

BUT, they were acting real. I mean, if you had the choice wouldn’t you spend your days (and nights) in bed? Who in their right mind (real or imagined) would choose to have any contact at all with a rogue demon?

So, hopefully I’ll do some more cutting and pasting today and crank up that word count. I feel much better about my deadline now that I actually have a story and not just a bunch of sexin’.

But please, tell me, am I the only one who gives my characters too much credit sometimes? Do you have to reign them in or is it harder for you to let them loose?

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