Sometimes I scare myself

I'm about to start a new book. The problem is that I only had a vague, very vague, idea for the book that will be the third in my Whitehorse: The Winchesters mini series.

This isn't anything new. I start a book with little idea of what it's about.

But I was starting to worry since I knew only who the hero was and the title "Ten-Gauge Guardian." The heroine though was a mystery. I was stuck.

I put off worrying about it -- and that's when I met the heroine. She came to me in a flash and suddenly I knew what my next book was about. But I was a little shaken by her "backstory." It scared me.

So now I'm just waiting for the right words to start this book because it gives me the creeps and I don't think I get the creeps easily -- after all I've killed a lot of people in my books.

But this book is different. The story scares me because in order to tell the heroine's story I have to put myself in her place. This isn't a book I want to write in the dark.

This won't be the first time I've written something that scares me. I often find myself looking over my shoulder, feeling as if the story is in the room with me. Don't even ask how many times I've checked the back seat of my car or highttailed it from car to house in the dark.

But there are some stories that even give me pause.