More GMC

I'm in the process of taking two on-line classes: "Love Scenes With Emotional Punch" with Shelley Bradley, and "How To Write An EroRom" with Angela Knight.

These classes come at a most opportune moment, while I struggle with GMC.

What are my characters' goals? In my current work in progress (wip), my heroine, Taite, is on the run from her former boss, who's a werewolf and wants to turn her so she can be his mate and make lots of werewolf babies. Taite is not signing on to be a supernatural brood mare, um, wolf. A friend puts her on the trail of the hero, Damon, who, as a highly successful horror novelist, has years of research about werewolves. He's considered an expert on the subject. What Taite doesn't know, what her friend, the hero's cousin, doesn't tell her, is that the hero is a werewolf. So is the cousin.

Do you begin to see the conflict?

Taite and her mother were abandoned by Taite's father when Taite was young. It wasn't long before Taite's mother remarried. The new husband was verbally abusive and controlling, turning Taite's mom into not much more than a slave. Taite vowed she would never give up control to a man. She'd never trust one enough. I mean, the two most important men in her life to this point have betrayed her. Then along comes her boss, who ultimately betrays her trust and puts her life in danger. Damon, on the other hand, is a very dominant lover. Not only is it an incredible turn-on for him to have his lover put her emotional and physical responses in his hands (so to speak), he believes it's necessary. His control slipped once during lovemaking with his former fiancee and his Wolf broke free. He hasn't been able to forget the look of horror and fear on her face and has vowed to never put another woman--or himself--through that again.

More conflict. Her needs conflict with his needs.

Okay. So how do these two people end up in bed together?

I'm still working on that. Stay tuned.