In July, I took Margie Lawson’s Immersion Master Class, an intensive three and a half day workshop on deep editing. My brain is still teeming with all the tips we learned to turn our manuscripts into bestsellers.
One day, as we reviewed one of my first-draft chapters in my current project, we came across a short paragraph about a character’s driving skills.
In the scene, my character is driving along a dark, windy road in the mountains at night when he comes across my protagonist walking along the side of the road after she’d just seen her maybe-boyfriend sucking face with another woman. (Every time I hear the words “sucking face,” I think of the 1981 movie “On Golden Pond,” where I first heard the term. The power of fresh writing!)
Anyway, the driver of the car offers my protagonist a ride home (she knows him—he’s the new man…
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