A Day Late

I haven't been feeling well after dinner lately, so I've been postponing my reports until the next day. I didn't make as much progress as I'd hoped yesterday and I had to resort to a place holder in the scene that was holding me back. I write chronologically, everything feeds off the scene before. I'll write down ideas and even dialogue for scenes when I'm plotting, but they have to wait their turn to be written. So my placeholder which will be fixed in revision along with the scene before it. I was telling my husband last night that I think I'm getting too bogged down in the mechanics of a scene. He does something, she has an immediate reaction, thinks about it, purposely reacts and then he reacts to her action. Needless to say(but I'm going to anyway) having this running through your brain during a love scene just doesn't work. So I'm going to go at it from the organic level, i.e. let it build on itself instead of forcing it. When I go back through in edits, I'll correct it to have the proper flow. Regardless, I'm taking a pass on it for now and moving on to the climax and ending. I'm hoping to finish first draft today, so I can start again on Fallen tomorrow with the beginning of 70 Days of Sweat.

Beloved(working title)

New words:554
New pages: 2 out of 45
Total words: 9802
Emily: Ready to sacrifice for love
James: Feeling peckish
# of Kisses: I don't think any.
Listened to while writing: Nothing
Random sampling of text: She was about to enter the dragon’s den and didn’t want to get eaten for her efforts.

Note: There aren't dragons in this even though it's paranormal.

Impressions

Though it would be great to try to continue to trick myself, Beloved is not going to be done at 10000 words. It will however be at least the length a Nocturne Bites needs to be. So as long as I keep it under 15000 words we'll be fine. But it was really nice seeing myself 94% done before changing the length and going back to 75%.

Yesterday Progress

Beloved(working title)

New words:1533
New pages: 8 out of 43
Total words: 9248
Emily: Not ready to run
James: To protect Emily willing to run.
# of Kisses: uh, 5. Umm, on the mouth :)
Listened to while writing: Shipwrecked, Ride by Cary Brothers (as heard on Scrubs)
Random sampling of text: “I couldn’t let you be dragged into this world. I had no choice in the matter. I tried to let you go when I realized what was happening.”

A single tear escaped and ran down her cheek. “You did let me go.”

Yum, Yum, I Need Some Chocolate

I Know What I'll Be Doing Tomorrow

Beloved(working title)

New words: 679
New pages: 3 out of 35
Total words: 7711
Emily: Falling against her will
James: Protective
# of Kisses: 1 intense kiss so far (stopped in scene)
Listened to while writing: Shipwrecked by Shane Alexander (If you've seen Bones you need this song)
Random sampling of text: The moment hung there, a breath separating their kiss. A moment for her to back away. A moment for her to change her mind. A moment not needed. She needed James. She wanted him. She’d never stopped loving him or mourning him. To have him again had seemed too much to hope. The last bits of her resolve to remain distanced slipped away.

Got My Groove On

I also finished the synopsis for the Desire I'm planning, so there's a skeleton for the plot.

Beloved(working title)

New words: 2449
New pages: 11 out of 32
Total words: 7032
Emily: Finally got away
James: Angry she got away
# of Kisses: 0
Listened to while writing: Nothing
Random sampling of text:“Look what we have here.” A voice that would haunt her dreams for years to come echoed slyly in the garage. No one else would hear him, just her.
The shaking started in her hands. She couldn’t speak. This was it. No more second chances. He would kill her.
“Tsk, tsk. James always said you were so brave. I expected a she-cat not a mouse.”

What Makes a Great Kiss?

I'll admit I'm no expert when it comes to kissing. I've kissed a total of 7 guys plus 4 that weren't really kisses. But I guess it's not the quantity but the quality. I think Jane Austen had it easy. She just had to write about love and not kissing. It's not that I mind writing kissing scenes. It's trying to convey what a kiss means. Technique is one thing. But when you write a kiss, it's almost like you accent the feelings with the technique. I haven't tried to do a google search on writing kissing. I'm almost scared to see what will show up. The thing is how do you describe the perfect kiss. How do you get the feelings that go behind that kiss? The anticipation? The overwhelming stuff that goes into kissing? Especially that first kiss with someone special. Most of my ideas are new couples meeting and kissing for the first time. The short piece I'm working on now is about past lovers reuniting. How much easier is it to fall into a kiss when you already know it's going to be the stuff dreams are made of?

How do you do it? How do you create that escalation of "Hi, how ya doin" to "oh, my God. whata man"?

Yup, I checked out Google search. Here's a couple humorous ones:

http://janette-rallison.blogspot.com/2007/05/writing-kissing-scenes.html
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1007264