And in this corner…

Posted By on May 6, 2011

Working at Panera!

I’m ‘rasslin’ words! You writers have done that, right?

I couldn’t wait to send in the partial and have that lovely, hopeful feeling of waiting to hear on a submission. (So, sometimes it gets painful, but it’s still a hopeful “work is out there” kind of feeling! I digress–what a shock.)  I’d accidentally left myself an excellent opening for the next chapter, and I’ve been whacking away at it. It feels flat.

Do you find that the scenes you’re dying to write can often fall short of how they looked in your plan? I have a friend whose son is an artist, and he used to say his work never looked as good as it had in his mind. That makes sense to me, but it’s part of the challenge. Lifting yourself and your work to meet that image you have of its beauty.

I thought this was going to be a scene that raised the stakes, reminded both hero and heroine that they are not going where they’d planned. And neither of these two like having a plan disrupted.

No. Right now, my hero is lighter than he needs to be, and the heroine disappeared the second I switched to his POV.

Ahhh, well. I love a challenge! Gotta go find those two and herd them back onto the pages! I’ve brought out the big guns. Opera on the iPod!

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