I don't remember how many times I rewrote that scene, but it was a bunch. My editor would read it and say, "Nope, this doesn't ring emotionally true." So I'd tackle it again, trying to nail it without pushing the characters around. That last scene between Kiriel and Lane took several different rewrites after the rest of the book was done I knew what happened in that scene, but I couldn't get the emotional arc of it right, and by that point I had looked at the ms so many times I couldn't really "see" it anymore. Girl characters are not my strong point and I kept going off course with her and that made Kiriel's reactions inaccurate. But most of the bumbling I did with Lane wasn't due to Kiriel-it was due to Lane herself. With Kiriel and Lane, same old same old I knew where they were ultimately heading, and there were the usual dead ends. I have to back up, reassess, delete, and rewrite. Jenkins: When I write a book, I generally know what will happen in the end, and then my process always takes me down blind alleys while I'm getting there.
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