Welcome to Day Four of the Writer Friends Challenge!
Today it’s all about my favorite settings to write about. I don’t know if I have a favorite setting to write, but I do have favorite scenes I like to write, and the settings on those can shift from story to story. There’s always a scene of intimacy between the characters. Oh, not in a spicy bedroom, sexy times sort of intimate, but a scene that is just the two of them alone having a meaningful discussion or discussions. In A Twelfth Night Wager it was the mistletoe in the greenhouse that prompted a kiss between Win and Addie. In The Love Line it was wading in the river, Andrew’s arms wrapped around Lucy-Anne. And in A Midnight Scandal it was Hugh and Lillian in Hugh’s bed reconnecting after six years apart.
For my current (still unnamed) story, it’s Eliza and Gideon on a walk together in the spring, the poppies blooming around them as the sun begins to set. This image pretty much sums it up, though I don’t know what conversation they’re having quite yet. But this scene is definitely happening. It’s so cozy and romantic and leaves much to the interpretation of the reader. That’s the problem with plantsing stories. I know what happens without actually knowing what happens.
Christina