Happy Wednesday! I’m officially on vacation this week, mostly spending time with my family, Netflix, and some new books. My son has been trying to get me to play Minecraft with him for years, and I finally caved. I’m terrible at it (got eaten by a zombie yesterday), but it’s fun. I felt less bad about being eaten after my kid set the woodland mansion on fire. (Any of you who play or whose kids play will know what that means. I only barely do!)
I’m not writing much this week. I finished cleaning up my manuscript for Drumbeat, and I’ll be sending it back to my publisher by Friday after I’ve gone over it one last time. I never got around to writing a Christmas story this year, and I’m a bit bummed about that. The truth is, it’s been hard to find a lot of motivation lately, though I won’t bore you with the details.
On to this week’s WIPpet. This is the last bit of the first scene in Minuet. Amelia and Jamie finally collaborated to clue me in about what Sage’s big secret is that Amelia knows. When she’s finally able to come clean with it, Sage will have to face facts, and Jamie will finally be free of him for good. But I’m not telling just yet.
(The picture at the top of this post is pretty much how Mack looks in my head. Mack dyes his hair black, and his tats are different, but it’s pretty close.)
WIPmath: None, as this is the last WIPpet of 2017 and the last snippet of this scene as well.
She’d held onto hope that Sage might change or get help or something, but what he’d done to Jamie made it clear it would never happen. Tonight might have been the first time she realized what Mack had known for years.
“Why?” she asked. “Why did Jamie put up with him for so long?” She looked up at Mack, and now her hurt and anger showed. “Why did we?”
“We did it for Jamie’s sake.”
He pulled her close again. There was no guarantee Sage would leave Jamie alone, but Mack suspected he wasn’t going to keep trying now that Mr. Muscles was about to discover all his carefully constructed lies.
“Come on,” Mack murmured. “That was intense. We should check on Jamie and then maybe go over to yours for a while, hm?”
“Yeah.” Amelia wiped her eyes. “I’d like that.”
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Oooh. Mack’s hot! 😀 So Sage isn’t redeemable? I don’t know if I’m sad about that or not. I’m still tempted to write a fanfic with an assassin…
Maybe the motivation will grip you next Christmas and you’ll write an epic, two-years’ worth Christmas story. Hugs. May your New Year be a wonderful one.
Ha! Yes, he is hot. I don’t know that Sage is irredeemable. I think the end goal is that Jamie needs to be entirely free of him, whether Sage is ever redeemed or not. If he’s honest and faces what he did, then he’d also have to do the right thing and leave Jamie alone forever. Which I guess is kind of a redemption. I dunno…I didn’t really redeem Elijah, either, but I did make him more human. I suppose that’s the idea here too.
I feel less bad that I didn’t write a Christmas story than that I wanted to write the one my kids asked for. They’re not really mad, but I do feel a bit like I let them down. I’ll get to it, just not this year.
That’s an intriguing snippet! Very true to life too in terms of situations where folk keep people around for one reason or another.
Just reminded me of a fun snippert to post up tho if I can find it! I haven’t written the Twelfth Night piece yet either!
Yes, definitely join in if you can! 🙂
A lot of folks think people can/should just get out of bad situations, but sometimes, that’s not possible or easy.
Well, I certainly do hope Sage stays away. Meanwhile *scrolls back up to Mack* *wipes away drool* 😀
Also, I read your Ashes and Alms yesterday and really enjoyed it. 🙂
Sage will stay away…eventually.
I’m glad you liked Ashes & Alms! 🙂
Tattoos… totally my thing. Love them so much it’s actually strange that my Anna doesn’t have any. Me, however… I’m certainly not covered, but I have my share and want more, always more.
And it’s difficult to write something on cue. You’ll get to that story when it’s ready for you. Forcing the issue never makes for good writing. Tell those kiddos to be patient.
I love tattoos…on other people. I thought about getting one, and I was so indecisive! But when thought about getting more piercings, it was so easy to decide. Got 3 new ones (well, only 2 if you count the matched set as one), and I still want at least a couple more.
The kids weren’t too sad about the story, fortunately. I might be able to give them something else a bit sooner than next Christmas, so there’s that. I agree about not being able to force something that isn’t ready, and I have time to work on it at a slower pace now.