Thursday's Thoughts

It's finally stopped raining in southern California! The sun is out and shining bright. As a Brooklyn born, transplanted Californian, I'm a true sun worshipper. But most importantly, the sunshine inspires and makes me want to get up early and write. The only problem is, that my next scene is the "dreaded" love scene. After 14 books, it's always hard to make the love scenes inventive and different, without going overboard. I write romance, not erotica, so I do have boundaries. And though the thought of writing yet another love scene isn't always welcome, I find that if I work it out through the emotions of my characters, show what they are feeling and thinking and how this will eventually lead them to fall in love, then the process becomes easier. Characterization is the key to romance, and if you know your characters well, it seems that everything else falls into place. So, off I go -- my hero doesn't know it yet, but he's about to get lucky -- in love!