More Than Just Mum: A laugh out loud novel of family chaos and reinvention by Rebecca Smith

Author:Rebecca Smith [Smith, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2019-12-06T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 19

I. Am. Writing.

I am actually, honest-to-god, writing, and it feels brilliant. The words are flying out of my fingertips and onto the screen in front of me and it’s like being the queen of the world. I have never felt more powerful in my entire life.

Downstairs, Benji is engrossed on his iPad and Scarlet is pretending to revise while watching Netflix. Dylan is out at his girlfriend’s house and I’m not collecting him for hours yet. Nick keeps popping in to our bedroom to replenish the cups of tea that I have no time or inclination to drink, because this story is telling itself and it’s all I can do to keep up with it.

I lean back, stretching out the kinks in my back. I know that sitting on my bed isn’t great for my posture, but it’s peaceful up here and I need to be somewhere that I won’t be disturbed if Bella Rose and Daxx are going to tell their tale.

It took me a while to come up with my main characters’ names. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that it has got to be one of the most stressful parts of writing; possibly even harder than choosing the names for our own kids. For starters, every name I thought about seemed to belong to some pupil I’ve taught over the years, or a colleague who I’ve worked with, and that would just be inappropriate. And secondly, the names have to be right. All my research suggests that the heroes and heroines of erotic fiction have names that befit their sexy status. There are no characters called Vera or Bob in this game.

I read the paragraph that I’ve just written.

Bella Rose peeped up through her improbably long eyelashes, wondering just who this incredibly gorgeous man, with his come-hither eyes, thought he was. She’d seen him around before but he’d never so much as glanced in her direction. Not that she cared. With looks like those, he was probably a complete prick …

Hmmm. I’m not entirely sure that I’m striking the right mood here. Pressing the delete button, I erase the first sentence and rewrite it, this time making Bella Rose peep up through her implausibly and remarkably long eyelashes at the exquisite and pulchritudinous man before her. It’ll do for now.

Maybe it’s time to take a break.

‘How goes the work?’ asks Nick as I walk into the kitchen. He closes his laptop and takes a slurp of tea. ‘Do you fancy getting takeaway tonight?’

I look at the clock and see that I’ve been writing for hours.

‘Definitely. I can collect something when I’m out getting Dylan.’ I sink into a chair and give him a grin. ‘And the work is going okay. I think.’

‘So tell me what you’ve written so far. What’s it actually about?’

I lean forward, keen to share my vision for Bella Rose and Daxx’s story.

‘Right. Well, there’s a guy called Daxx – that’s with two x’s – and he owns a ranch. And he’s also totally sex-on-legs, obviously.

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