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I’m loving it thanks for asking! Living with strangers was hard at first but I’m getting used to it   I am also making some new friends plus I joined the gym so I’m busy busy! Aand I also get time to work on my WIP.

Wow, that sounds hectic! I can imagine it’s a big adjustment, but I’m glad you’re enjoying it! What are you studying?

Did you have any issues with the three big storms? I’m pretty sure they were over England as well. We certainly felt all of them, but praise God we barely have damages. It was definitely stressful though.

Aw I’m delighted to hear that, thanks Rose! I look forward to his future interactions with her – it could go anywhere hehe. And yeah he is the total opposite! I intend for them to have some of those buddy banters where Lorcan acts like he doesn’t like him but secretly he thinks he’s hilarious.

LOL, those are the best dynamics!

I am also not going to be too straightforward about who Daire is and what his role is in the story because its all SPOILERS so I am just going to use this castle to flesh out his personality.

LOL, that’s a mood XD I’ve been deliberately obscuring a lot of stuff with Aydin and Liorah.

in your personal opinion can a character have more than one motive, goal, desire and misbelief? That’s kinda where I’m at with my character Mayra, I’m literally trying not to let my brain explode because of all the things going on inside her head XD

Yes, absolutely! Aydin has absolutely dozens of each! Just off the top of my head his misbeliefs include “I’m not wanted” “I don’t deserve happiness” “I’m a burden” “I need to be independant or others will hurt me” “I won’t amount to anything” and so on and so forth. (I can keep going, trust me. Don’t worry he’s getting help in-story, it’s working out.)

But you’ll see that almost all of those boil down to one fundamental lie: “I am a terrible person and deserve every bad thing that happened to me and nothing else.” All the other lies often turn out to be different “flavors” of the same thing.

Another example, Liorah’s current lie (in book 3) is “I have to be successful by surpassing Gavril’s example, otherwise I’m useless and my future will slip away from me and I’ll be unhappy for the rest of my life.”

However in the same vein she’s showing strong signs of a sub-lie. “I have to sacrifice everything or I’m worthless.” However, if you were to ask her “Why do you have to?” She’d probably answer “Because Gavril did” and it boils down to the same thing.

It might be that characters have a set of interconnected lies, and especially in a series sometimes you just have to bookmark them and move on.

For example, Liorah was showing signs of this “I have to live up to Gavril” nonsense all the way back in book 1, but she had a block in her way “Why should I?”. It was still there, it was just hidden. As circumstances changed it popped up again worse than ever.

I hope that rant was at least somewhat useful!

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I really want to get back in the castle, but life has just been happening and has not stopped happening. When there is an interlude, I’ll try to make a grandiose return 🙂