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Ten pages today of the new scene. Ten pages and we’ve mostly talked. What man would be in the bed with Anita if we start to have sex, but get side tracked by difficult talk? Come on, who would you guess?
Was your guess . . . Richard?
Wrong. For once, nope.
It’s a Jason and Anita scene. When I wrote ages ago about this book that Jason had saved up his issues to spend them all in one glorious, difficult run, I wasn’t joking. It’s been a very interesting book to write about Jason. I’ve learned things I never knew, at all, about his childhood, and him. It will be interesting to see if after BLOOD NOIR, Jason goes back to being easy to write, or if this more complicated persona is permanent. Character growth sometimes gives you windows of insight then the character decides to go back a little, like a real person having a therapy break through. Sometimes the clarity is too painful and you have to go back a little to your old ways, but sometimes that moment of clarity is so bright, so burningly clear that there is no going back. We’ll see what Jason does in subsequent books.
Hopefully, I can finish the scene tomorrow. I think I’m about another ten pages out from the end. This is the last major scene add, or rewrite. The rest is mostly choreography for fight scenes, or simply blocking changes from the research Jon and I did in Jason’s hometown. Tedious, but not as time consuming as creating fresh pages.
I think I ended the last chapter with some sort of joke about Anita being orally fixated. Guess, what they’re doing?
Yep.
That’s exactly what I left them doing.
Tomorrow, enough with the foreplay, and God, help us, enough talk. I’m hoping for some good, uncomplicated, intercourse. Surely if we can manage uncomplicated with anyone in these books, it would be Jason. Right?