Does Your Character Regret Anything?

emi's giving away the Cherry on Top Life is Good Award to everyone!

Recipients are to share with everyone things about their pasts that they would change. I'm with Jemi on this, though; I don't regret anything from the past that's led me to where I am. So let me see if I can do this from my character Rosa's point of view (from the novel Out of the Water, set in 1492-3 in Spain and Turkey):

1. I'd let my father and older brother do the rescuing. If I hadn't barged in, acting like a boy, I wouldn't have fallen down the cliffside in the first place.

2. Of course, then I wouldn't have met Brother Arcturus and gone down to Palos, where I discovered who my real father was. Still, I might have been happier not knowing. And if I hadn't been on my own, I wouldn't have been captured and questioned by the Inquisition.

3. At least I escaped - right into the arms of my husband to be. Of course, I didn't know that at the time. If all of the terrible things above hadn't happened, would I have met him in some other way?

4. He only courted me slowly at the start, but then we spent that night together at Malta. If I hadn't done that... No one knows about that by the way, so I'm swearing you to secrecy! Would he have married me soon after, as he did, if we hadn't already been together?

5. I wish he wasn't ill. I wish there was some cure that would save him. His coughing is getting worse and worse... And it's all my fault.

Hmm, do you think I can count the above toward meeting my goals for the Round of Words in 80 Days?

Ah, didn't think so. Well, I slacked off yesterday, but for the most part #amediting. Getting lots of great feedback, especially on the CompuServe Books and Writers Community.

Jen, over at All The World's Our Page, is hosting a contest! Just hop over and post a scene that has "your character do something thoughtful for another (even better if they do it with complete nonchalance)."

I put up mine already, but won't repost here as it's a little long - head on over to the contest page if you'd like to read it.