Meet The Cast - Take One

I am so jealous of Laurell K. Hamilton. She is able to let go what I should. But I have trust issues. What can she do? I will quote her, "I’ve totally let Merry have her head, and end the book as she pleases. I’m still waiting for my bloodbath, but Merry has other ideas. It’s her book, and her life. I just work there. I don’t have to live there, so who am I to complain?"

I'm stuck and I'm going to have to let one of my main characters, Cassandra James to have her way. She is more than likely going to kill her father who was a royal son of a bitch. I was hoping to use the father as a villain in another book.

Apparently I'm not going to be so lucky. Granted he deserves to die. He hates all monsters and hated even more that his own flesh and blood was born with extrodinary gifts. He made her disappear as a child and spent years trying to rid her of her demons.

Then there is Jared. Jared is my vampire. He's 2000 years old which is a challenge because that's a pile of real history that I have to get in touch with. I'm limiting him somewhat geographically to make it easier. England, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland for 95 percent of it. For 200 years and some change America.

Jared speaks to me as well. He is the cultural moderate. He's arrogant and powerful. The ultimate warrior. He's been voted sexiest undead for 10 times. They've only been doing sexiest undead for 10 years. He likes motorcycles and The Grateful Dead. He is brilliant in all ways. A true terror on the business world.

There are a few more but that's all. What is the purpose of me sharing this? I need to restablish my head on this. I lost touch of my story a few days ago and I need to get it fixed or I'm going to lose it all together. And now I need to let my characters do what they need to do instead of micro-managing them.