Write it out until you figure it out.
I put this sentence in an email once
and was quite entranced with it after I wrote it. It's true. You have a scene
in your head, and you want to get it on paper. Keep after it. Write and rewrite
until what you see in your head ends up on the page. You'll know it's right if
you keep going back to read it again and again because it feels good. I know
that sounds hokey, but it's true.
In My Mother Grows Wallflowers, there’s a scene at the river where Sam and
Mina share a first kiss. It was more than the motion of putting words to paper.
It was the feeling the kiss evoked deep in my gut that needed to get on the
page. The kiss, their foreheads touching, the wonder, and the deliciousness of
his smell...all of it. I wrote and rewrote until it played out on the page the
way I saw it in my head. To this day, when I go back and read the scene, I
still feel the "Ahhh..." and wonder of that first kiss.
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