Luxuriating in Words

Recently I realized that when you're writing and really on a roll, a great scene can be like a bubble bath. There's the preparation of the bath with the perfect fragrant soap, the towels, the wash cloth and/or loufa and the steamy hot water filling the tub with bubbles. That's the research that you enjoyed, collected, and rolled it happily around in your mind.

Now to get into the steamy hot water. Put the feet in first, and as you lower yourself and the heat touches you one part of you at a time–ahhhhhh! Every part of you relaxes in the steamy hot water, the bubbles like silk kissing your skin. Here are the parts of a scene–the setup, the implementation–step by step, and the dreamy results. Funny, how this can also be used for writing love scenes. LOL

Then there's the reprecussions, ripples in the water. Something happens because your character is in the bath. Rub that soft soap all over. You don't know how this scene will eventually affect the character, other than leaving the bath with pruney fingers and toes.

What happens? Options! Does someone join her in the bath? Does she lure someone to the water?

Now it's your turn to luxuriate with words.

–Susan

Susan Hanniford Crowley

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