The following is a tale of caution.
Yesterday, I sat down to work on The Hushing Days for the first time in over a week, gathered all my scribblings of notes and mountains of research around me and with great relief and a huge goofy grin upon my face took up the life story of Rosabel Starling again until…
*cue the beat of ominous silence*
Fifteen minutes in, I realized there is no Rosabel Starling in The Hushing Days.
Thankfully, there is a Lisabel Starling so I hadn’t suffered some kind of delusional break while traipsing with the buzzards up in the mountains (see yesterday’s post for those messy details). I hadn’t hallucinated a full-blown character out of nowhere. I had simply misremembered a name…
*strike up that dirge-like silent beat again*
The heroine’s name…
The heroine’s name of a novel I’ve been slaving over for the past five months….
The heroine’s name of a novel which has taken over a complete lobe of my brain and at least one chamber of my heart.
*cue the deep breaths*
I have since recovered from this shame. However, I present it to you as ugly proof of the dark side of vacations.
Holiday wisely, my friends.
Until tomorrow…
Chloe
The Words & Madness of Chloe Stowe 