Day 2 I have a title for my book; The Curse of 93'

No word if curses will actually make an appearance but its a working title to be sure.

My book has taken an unexpected detour and a weird one at that. When I was originally planning my novel, I knew I wanted Marcus to break up with his long-term girlfriend so he would be more free to travel the world and get too involved in something that wouldn’t have happened if he had been in a relationship. So I had this great thought about how since he was a scout and away many nights, Tori, his girlfriend, would start cheating on him which he would eventually discover.

Not how things turned out. Not only did I change Tori’s name to Kathy then back to Tori (which was really weird, it felt right then so so so wrong) I made Tori a much better person than I had originally planned. Tori in fact helped Marcus out of his “dark years” (which I haven’t fully developed out, it will come out along with the story, Thanks Jill for the string them along writing style!) and only wanted a more secure relationship, one that Marcus really isn’t capable of giving.

Thus instead of my character feeling freed from his relationship he will find himself missing it and somewhat regretting what has happened. Will it affect him later? Maybe…Will Marcus find love again…possibly but at the moment it seems unlikely. Though if he does find love again, her name will Alex or Alexandra. I may write her in just to use the name which I for some reason really enjoy.
Things don’t get any better for Marcus who will next be experiencing a death of someone very close to him BUT this is when my story will get a little more complicated and maybe a little more interesting.

I’m at 5,102 (which is much better than last year :)) and here is an excerpt of what Marcus and Tori’s relationship is like.

Tori had met Marcus when he was rebounding from his dark years and had been dating him for the past two and half years. Tori had been bouncing around boyfriends and was looking to settle down somewhat. Marcus was slowly recovering from the hangover of his life and needed some stability and Tori provided him with that. She was loving and patient and with the help of an old friend, Joe Marleau, had got Marcus back on his feet and back into hockey. However, quite a bit had change over the past couple of years. Tori settled in a mid level management job at a local manufacturing center and Marcus got his feet wet in the fantastic but often lonely world of scouting. Moving in together a year ago seemed like a good idea at the time but now maybe not both but at least one person in the relationship was questioning the decision.

Its not that the love wasn’t there, you can’t not love someone after being through the times that our couple had been through, but they were simply at different points in their lives. Though relatively the same age (29 for Marcus and 28 for Tori) they were at different points in their lives. Tori was looking for the next step in the relationship, marriage, children etc., etc. but Marcus wanted to take a stronger focus in his career. He loved hockey and wanted to move up the scouting ranks. This meant he would be going to as many junior games in all across the eastern seaboard with occasional visits to San Jose. Not quite what Tori had in mind.

The relationship was at a crossroads and while both knew in their heart it was probably time to move on neither was about to take the next step. But tonight either unfortunately or fortunately depending on your view of the relationship it was about to change.