For me, writing a scene is much like watching the outtakes of a movie just before the credits roll. Some days, my characters get it right on the first try. Others days, well, let’s just say there are a lot of mental “cuts” being called. After a while, my beloved characters cut their eyes with a “get it together” look, before finally walking off the set. Leaving me to hope they show back up later.
When I started plotting my current project, I knew that I wanted to add a little more of a villainous character, and he was surprisingly quite fun to plot. It’s easy writing a villain, when he is being a villain…but what about those early scenes when he’s disguised as one of the good guys?
I find it far more challenging to write a romantic scene between said villain and my credulous heroine, when I can’t stop screaming from my chair offset, “Don’t trust him!”, which earns me exasperated sighs from my characters.
“I know, I know!” I promise, we have to get through these scenes.
And so, for the sake of not getting bogged down, my page gets the big red stamp.
(Romantic scene here)
But the show must go on, and eventually I have to get over my aversion to her poor decision. So how do I move on? I thought you would never ask. With a little thing called research. And by research, I mean staring endlessly at this…
One look at this stunning photo, and there are plenty of words to describe just what I, -er my heroine, would love to do to him. What can I say, I’m an Avengers fan…okay, okay, I don’t really give two cents about the movie, only Chris Evans, but shhh, McVet thinks I watch it because it’s a great movie.
