"Blather" -- I love that word! My critique group and I are about halfway through editing my NaNo novel from 2009. Assuming I finish the current NaNo book, who knows when it will be ready to go?

Like you, my characters aren't cooperating, which tells me I need to keep on writing until they reveal what they want to do. Right now they are so boring I can hardly stand them. I like your idea of threatening to kill or perhaps maim them, though that's hard to do in a romance.

Hang in there. It sounds like you're doing great!
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Sandy Nachlinger, author of BLUEBONNETS FOR ELLY; co-author with Sandra Allen of I.O.U. SEX
http://sandranachlinger.blogspot.com