"Do it!"
So, I have been butting my head against a wall for the past few days trying to get this scene just right.
I knew that the scene would be in the book a long time ago. It is a great scene between two characters that I really like. They are almost complete opposites, so it really gives each one a chance to show off who the are.
Then, a little while back I needed the drama to go a certain way at a certain moment, and this scene popped back up. It moved the plot along perfectly, and gave just enough information about the characters.
So, I started re-writing it to fit its new place and found that it just didn’t work.
It sounded wrong.
As I set out to the coffee shop this morning, I put my MP3 player on random and just let my mind wander.
Two songs into my walk, the answer was given to me.
Henry Rollins.
The dude talks like Henry Rollins.
Not 100% Rollins, but it gave me a place to start with him that was really a departure from what I had been doing before. And it works.
People usually picture “the muse” as a delicately beautuful sprite, sprinkling inspiration into the minds of artists. In this case, my muse is a shirtlessly eloquent, tattooed, thug with a menacing glare.
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