It’s been a month, and my writer’s group met again.  Much more positive this time.  A lot of happy faces on the pages.  Much better.  Although since coming up with my fantastic new ideas and deciding to make two books into three, I’ve managed to create a whole new set of problems for myself.  The main one is that I really need to let go of the character that I wrote back in high school.  She was all girly and romantic–which is reasonable, because girls of her age are girly and romantic, but I was, too, and that doesn’t help me write her character now.  I just can’t quite figure out how to get into her head and make her different from me, realistic enough to be a genuine character, yet still someone I (and some other readers, hopefully) can admire.

And then there’s the whole issue that my writing group (of one) brought up about her initial disappearance and why aren’t more people concerned and where has she been and why…?  I’m a little torn on that one, because I don’t want her to be that noticed.  She’s worried about being noticed, despite needing to be at the center of all of the attention (it’s part of her job, after all), so I want her to maintain some sense of privacy.  Perhaps the king secretly knows where she is all along.  Hm.  Still need to work it out a bit.  Maybe I should just do more research today.  Ugh.  Maybe this is too hard.  Maybe I don’t want to be a writer.  Ha…

On a happier note, I spent a little time yesterday researching fool cards from tarot decks and that was interesting.  Not a lot of images out there on their own, but once you start looking for the actual decks…  And there are manga decks, dragon decks, vampire decks (yeah…vampire fool?  A little creepy…) and even a Hello, Kitty deck called Hello, Tarot.  Pretty amusing.  And apparently quite expensive and rare.  It would be.