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That said, I've encountered one of my nemeses: The Chase Scene. Now, I'm not too shabby, I think, with most action scenes anymore - fight scene? Awesome, especially if it's between two pivotal characters who have a lot to fight out. Even better if they're taunting each other! Suspenseful scenes? Okay! Especially if people are losing everything around them and their sanity is but a single thread ready for me to cut!
Chase scenes?
Oh, no.
I don't know what it is about chase scenes I hate so much. I've always hated them, and not just writing them. I always ignore them in movies and gloss over them in other books. Remember when the rule was you're supposed to go quickly through them anyway, and leave out all the details because nobody would realistically notice them? Well, now I've been reading up some more, and the trend seems to have steered in the OPPOSITE direction, and we're all supposed to be Dean Koontz. Lol, screw that. Seriously.
When it comes to chase scenes, my thoughts are - make it as short as possible. Only put in the necessary details. Unless a major plot point somehow happens between Point A and B, there's no reason for me to know every damn twist and turn somebody goes down. I also don't care how hard they're running. I just want to know where they're going and if they're unscathed. Oh, and what happened to the person chasing them...I guess.
Can you tell I wrote one a couple nights ago? Half asleep, no less. It was awful. I literally did the bare amount necessary for a rough draft, thinking I would flesh it out in Round 2. I will be seriously kicking myself for that later.
But I don't care. Because chase scenes suck. Why can't we all just sit around and talk/fight out our feelings?
Any kind of scene you just hate writing/reading?
I don't think I've ever written a chase scene ... But I DO hate it when characters cry. Really. It's awkward in the real world, doesn't change in the land of words.
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Character B: *awkward words of comfort/offer of hug?*
Youd think in a world of magic, SOMEONE would learn the Conjure Kittens spell, then nobody would ever cry.
Ahaha, I think half my characters end up crying half the time. But especially for the main character(s) it's how they deal with all the stress of burden on their shoulders, and they get sick of crying just as much as I get sick of writing it towards the end. I'm thinking that by the end of the series it's going to take a lot to get them to cry.
DeleteUgh chase scene and crying scenes both have to be handwritten before typed, for me. Left/right brain stuff I guess.
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