My plan was to take the diner scene, the scene where Mare first sits down with her high school sweetheart to find out why he left prom night and never came back, and put it in his POV because I need his POV in here. But I’ve tried for the hour now, and it’s not going to work, at least not until I step back and reconceptualize this. Because as it’s written now, and I like it, it’s about Mare trying to cope with choices: She didn’t have any and now she has three and she’s trying not to get sucked into Crash’s life again since he left her before.

Which made me realize that although I do need Crash’s viewpoint, I need it in his VIEWPOINT, that is, it’s not just that it has to be in his head and his voice, it has to be his story. Which means I have to know what his story is. I know the end of it, but I have to figure out how to introduce it, and I think that has to be in a scene that follows the diner scene, not the diner scene itself.

Which means I just blew an hour messing with a perfectly good scene, but at least we’ve learned something from this, Dorothy.

Argh.