While revising D, I realized that I needed another kissing scene to round out the story. Not rounding out through the kissing part itself, but through the events for which the kiss is a catalyst (and not that! Get your minds out of the gutter, people!)
Now, y'all know by know that I feel incredibly awkward while writing kissy scenes. While everyone else on #1K1hr or during other writing blitzes would get excited-- "Yes! I finally got to the kissing!", I dreaded them. But this round of revs, I found myself grinning while editing one of the kisses... and was actually looking forward to the new kissy scene.
I blame my romance writing friends. (And YA! YA writerly people who love the kissy scene writing almost as much as I love glitter. And you know how much I love glitter.) *Oscar the Grouch Look* Why for you do that to me? I was happy with the whole begrudging kissy-scene writer label. Now? Now I still feel goofy... but I enjoy it a whole lot more.
Plus, now I definitely need a boyfriend. Because it would be so much better to practice with him. So much better than making weird, vague hand gestures while driving or in the apartment or (worse of all) in my cubicle during lunch hour to make sure my descriptions of hand and arm and head positions in kissy scenes are physically possible/make sense.
It's All Your Fault.
Thank you :)
Issy-I have no idea why you don't have a boyfriend. I think the guys around you must be blind...
ReplyDeleteAnd, I'm with you. Even though I have The Husband and three kids, I still get all goofy and stupid when I write a love scene. Don't know why. :)
Hee! Apparently, I'm just too intimdating to guys, ala mini sock boy :) Sadly, I haven't been on a "real date" for years and am turning into the definition of old maid crazy cat lady! (We shall take over the world, we will, with our cat-powers!)
DeleteI might have to get past that old-maid-dom, though, for the good of my WIPs :)
I agree with jaybird: even with a husband I still feel like a total knob writing kissing scenes. But the one thing that I have noticed that made the whole writing of kissing scenes easier is that most of these moments in books tend to feel very similar. Your kissing scene will be no more cheesier than every other kissing scene in every other book written. That sure made the process a lot less weird for me. :)
ReplyDeleteYou're right and I seriously have no idea how the romance writers do it... I'd be giggling and redfaced just trying to think through the wording for the scene, you know? As it is, I'm trying so hard not to have octopus-arm syndrome in the bits that I do write (you know: "And she put her hand on his arm and her other arm on his neck and her other hand on his knee...")
Delete*chokes on laughter* I'm dying! I'm dying! I'm dead. I <3 this so much, because everyone in my grade is all like "I kissed blah blah blah", and here, I'm thinking "I'm going to give you one more chance to shut up before I beat you upside the head with my WIP pages paperclipped together." Is it weird that I just go to youtube and search for every Delena scene with a kiss and just freeze it and try to do it frame by frame. *shrugs* to each their own!
ReplyDeleteNever weird! I think it was Cassandra Clare who once said fighting scenes were easier to write because she could block those out with whichever of her friends were around. Not so much the kissing :-P
DeleteI swear, this kissing thing is insidious. You think you're safe and then, bam, your characters demand it!