(repost from myspace blog)

I’ve been at a crossroads with the story I’m writing. One, I don’t like the name, "Funny Love" anymore. It was originally going to be the name of the video game, it hardly seems appropriate for a title of a romance novel though. Novel of that genre usually have titles like, "Savage Thunder" or "So Speaks the Heart". I’m open to any suggestions but it might be too early in the story to accurately pick a title.

I keep coming back to the second paragraph when I describe or rather try to describe Sam’s looks. I can’t seem to settle of what I want her clothes to look like. Why? Well I don’t like dresses and to dress the main female character in one makes me cringe so I tried a skirt. Don’t’ like that either. I’ve written her lines in the way I think I would react. I suppose that’s like writing me into a story. But it’s a medieval story and females didn’t usually go gallivanting about in jeans and a shirt. So you see my dilemma.

I might have found a solution to the problem but I’m not sure. I’m still developing or rather re-writing the plot in my head as the story was once a fantasy video game idea of a girl that is summoned to another world. So jeans wouldn’t be a problem there.

Back to the problem. I opened the story with Sam trying to escape a dungeon but how did she end up there? The solution I thought up was to have two warring clans. So cliché, I know, but stay with me for a moment. For what reason the feud has taken place, I haven’t decided, but Sam would be the daughter of one of the Lords though. Let’s say for instance that her Mother died in childbirth and since her Father had always wanted a boy, he raised his daughter as one. She’d been taught the ways of a warrior at a young age, could utilize a sword with skill. She loved horses and frequently went riding through the meadows on her horse Starlight, even though she had been told not to, that it was too dangerous she did anyway, countless times, over and over with nothing amiss happening. She was free-spirited and willful. Not qualities one would usually look for in a woman in those times.

Okay, now let’s say that one day while she was riding her horse she is abducted. Why? Haven’t decided, but it would explain why she would be wearing pants and a shirt, ne?

Okay, so what do you think?