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Getting Closer

Posted on March 1, 2012 by cassiesweet

It’s March 1st, and I’m pleased to announce that my first m/m book is only about 20K away from seeing the rough completed and ready to ship out to a pub. It’s been a struggle and I’ve tried valiantly to work on some of it each writing day, but it hasn’t always materialized as such.

Take today for instance. My brain is suffering from ‘lackawanna.’ I am not in the frame of mind to write, though I know I should. Tried working on a synopsis for another book and had to stop halfway through because it was so bad I wanted to hide my face in shame.

Shame, I tell you!

Anyhoo, my heroes are getting closer to figuring out the reason for the upheaval in their world. I’ve also been dragged along to write a couple more in the series. (Why is that, I wonder?) Just when I thought there would only be one, there are two more that crop up and decide they want to be written. I think it might be a great series though. Hurray!!

Alchemists and Elementals…what’s not to love?

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The Long and Short of It

Posted on December 11, 2011 by cassiesweet

So, I’m sitting here and thinking about the two books I have going right now with m/m characters and the Christmas stories I have to finish for March 1 deadlines for the 2012 Holiday season. Yes, in writing we do so work far ahead. Always looking to the horizon, that’s a writer’s life.  So, I started my little brain going and the brain was saying…Look, be real…you know you want to write a m/m Christmas tale as well. You can squeeze it in. You know you want to.

Problem is, I do want to. I just don’t think I have the time…and the idea hasn’t come to me yet. Only the vague notion of wanting to write one. When I started writing m/m and coming from a place of writing all hetero romances with a few menages thrown in, I promised myself I would not write m/m for the hell of it…or because everyone else had jumped on the bandwagon. No, the characters themselves have to speak to me, tap me on the shoulder, goose me, whatever and say…yeah, we’re only doing this gig if we can have some yummy man love. So, I, being the accommodating author I am say, sure…you got it. But to have the notion of wanting to write one without the characters coming to me first and saying, “Look here’s our story write it or not, your choice,” is not something I’m used to.

And bammo…I just got hit with an idea. Just now, just this second as I’m writing this. Hold on, let me write down the idea before it leaves me forever. And great…three projects to write before a March 1st deadline. How do I get myself into these things. No, don’t answer that. Forget I asked.

I’ll add that one to the pile and look at it again later. Too many things to finish right now.

And now that I have more to write…I better wind this up. Christmas tree shopping today. But first it’s of to the mundane land of dish washing.

Cassie

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It’s Coming Together Nicely, Thank You

Posted on November 29, 2011 by cassiesweet

Yes, yes it is. *rubs hands together greedily*

I finally have my boys on the road to a new destination. I hadn’t planned to make this story a road trip, but it kind of happened anyhow. That’s fine. I like when unexpected things happen to my characters. It’s like I’m merely sitting there dictating their lives as they unfold and really not working as creator. They are also getting closer. It’s going to come down to crunch time about whether I will actually write a fully realized love scene or not. Frankly, I’m scared.

I think when push comes to shove, I’ll be able to do it. I have written smaller ones, make out scenes, but then the characters where self-propelled. Meaning, they were already full of sexual tension and angst and I just had to light the match on the powder keg to get them to blow. Hopefully, with Nicodemis and Theodyne, I’ll have the same luck. I feel their relationship comes from a different place. That it is one of mutual admiration and trust, rather than lust. Though they both physically admire each other. I’ll just have to wait and see when it gets to that point.

No matter what, I don’t want to force it. I’d had for it to end up like a Cialis commercial. “When the time is right…” *insert cheesy grin and wink here* – You know what I mean. All those male enhancement product commercials end the same way. There are hints and winks and secret smiles that tells the viewer he’s hiding an anaconda in his pants he wants to unleash. Yeah, thanks, I can do without that. I want my guys to go at it naturally, please. For the scene to grow organically out of what has come before.

Let’s just hope when it does happen between them, that it lives up to my expectations.

-Cassie

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Goals and Mission Statement

Posted on November 20, 2011 by cassiesweet

Let me just start by saying, there are many, many stories swirling around in this great melon I call a head.

Currently, I’m working on two of them. A fantasy set in what would be the Renaissance in our world and a contemporary set in an island off the coast of South America. Both very different in time period, sub-genre and locale, but they do share a common theme: men fighting for their right to be loved.

Now, I don’t me rights in a political sense, but in the feelings we all have regardless of gender or sexual orientation to feel we deserve to be loved. That’s a concept that crosses all barriers of race, socio-economic, sex, and any other manmade box society deems to lump people into. We all have doubts as to our self-worth or our belief that we are worthy of love or even tenderness. And while the men in my stories do enjoy active sex lives, that’s not quite the love they are after. The need to belong, to connect with that one special person. The other half of their soul. That’s the drive that feeds my men. The quest that puts fire in their guts.

I love my characters, but being a writer, I also believe you have to torture them, no matter how much you love them. So, yeah, they do not have an easy road to love. They will often be dragged down the road to bliss kicking, punching, yelling, cursing and fighting the fates. Only then will they recognize that what they fought against, is really what they wanted all along. That’s what makes a good story. The journey of the characters to find their true hearts. It’s a beautiful thing.

I hope you will all enjoy their journeys with me. I’ll keep you updated on my progress as I take on this new writing frontier. (Well, relatively new to me.)

-All the best,

Cassie

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