Michelle's corner

To The Grave is reaching 35,000 words now. Some serious things are going on and stuff is getting more interpersonal than with any of my other books to date. I've got three main relationships going on, as well as side threads, which each have their own purpose and carry their own piece of the overall message.

One thing that an Amazon reviewer said about Companion, was, "It projects well onto the internal cinema screen inside the head." That's how I write some of the scenes. The trick is that there is a death and, in order to write it, I have to feel it. How can I explain this? "Oh Shenandoah" - and ready the tissues for this one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXBw81sdpRg

I'm playing my own scene through my minds eye. I've got it locked in. I know every characters movements and I've been playing it in my head. Every time I do, I choke up, as I have to capture that detail, the emotion, the action, the pain ... and then translate it on to the page in such a way that ... if I've done my job right ... the reader will be crying at much when they read it ... as I've cried to write it. Only I'd have cried a lot more.

I might actually write it ahead of the loop ... get it down on paper and out of my head, because even thinking about it is hurting.