I have the perfect girl. She meets a heavenly boy. The first encounter is electric. Something intangible draws them together that neither can fight. A look, a touch, a hitch in breath leads to the growing need that pulses their blood.
And then…
After that first chance meeting…
I’ve got nothing.
I can create a dynamic meeting. I can even jump weeks into the future and have them spinning in love but that middle ground, the getting to know you period, I suck.
I don’t know how to make my characters get to know each other without it looking obvious/cheesy or come off angry. Yes angry. For some reason when I can’t get my couple to… become a couple, I have the girl mad at the boy. Guess I’m releasing my own writer frustrations. So my two love birds either know nothing about each other and I let their imagination flame. OR they intimately know everything about each other, down to the color of her favorite panties. BUT this middle, I have trouble writing. I literally stare at the page waiting for something, anything to occur between them.
It’s the most awkward, painful part to write and once I push through it, I know it will be two or three revisions before I get it quite right. So until then I have a fumbling unnatural mess of almost love, wading through the painful process of getting to know each other.
How about you? What stifles your writing?
(Phew, I promised a post today and I barely made it. Thanks to everyone being patient.)
