What a choice!
It’s July. And everyone who knows me, knows I love Hallmark
and especially Christmas in July, where they run holiday movies all day long.
Okay – full confession. By the time I get to the third week of July, I am
pretty numb and holidayed-out. However, I still love to read holiday books
while sunning by the ocean. And…I love writing holiday books.
As an author who has written three Christmas-themed romances
and one that is Valentine-themed, when do I usually do most of that writing?
You got it, during the warmer weather of spring and summer.
And many times, when I am working on books that take place
in warmer weather, that writing takes place as the weather-gods open up the
skies to that cold, white stuff.
The hero and heroine in Come Dance With Me, an
interracial, intercultural story about a uptight high school English teacher who
has trouble opening up to anything, much less love, are both based on actors I
have seen on Hallmark.
As I wrote the hero, I had in mind an actor I saw on “Christmas
in Homestead,” a Hallmark movie. Aaron also reminded me of a guy on whom I had
a major crush in high school. I watched Aaron “Quick” Nelson when he played the
role of a bodyguard to a well-known actress. His role was so sweet as he interacted
with the innkeeper hero’s young daughter who loved the movies made by the
actress. Plus, in real life Mr. Nelson is a New Englander, so…what’s not to like.
I envisioned the actress being Autumn Reeser, a well-known Hallmark staple. And
I searched high and low for the perfect cover photo of how I envisioned what these
two characters might look like, as I wrote the story.
But I digress…
To address the question about whether I like snow better
than sand, or vice versa is a tough question. I can be gazing at a blizzard
outside my window and writing a hot, summer scene. That stream of fluffy and frozen,
white stuff brightens the sky in its own way. The day is beautiful, cocooning,
and comfortable, especially when I know I can stay inside with a cup of hot cocoa, and write, write,
write. With a bit of a shiver, I imagine a cozy comforter, snuggled on the
couch in front of a roaring fire.
As a writer, it is good to have an imagination, since I do
not have a fireplace or a woodstove, so instead I have to crank the heat up and
know I’ll be using more fuel to stay warm. I also know that were I to succumb
to cuddling on the couch with a comforter wrapped around me, I’d doze off and
not get any writing work done. Instead, I crank up the electric heater by my
desk and crank up the fire under the kettle, and imagine myself in that
sunny clime, as I finish tapping out a romantic, engagement, beach scene that could bring my beach-wandering couple to their inevitable happily-ever-after.
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The warmth of the radiator takes my imagination away to a
pristine white sand beach, sailboats, and the aqua blue ocean or bay gently lapping against the
shore. A couple strolls, hand-in-hand. When the sun becomes too much, they run
into the bathtub-warm water, splash around, and cool down before they continue
their leisurely walk, picking up beautiful shells as they go.
The downside of being a fiction writer, the imagination can
run wild at any given time. So, picking a snowy day snuggled by the fire, over a
breezy, sunny day at the ocean…well, for me, it depends on the mood of the story
I am writing, and not the actual season flashing its attributes outside my
window. Because in the winter I dream of sand. And in the summer, I dream of
sipping hot cocoa by a fire.
Do you have a
favorite season?
Do you prefer snow over sand, or vice versa?
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~ cottages to cabins ~ keep the home fires burning ~
Delsora Lowe
writes small town sweet and spicy romances and contemporary westerns from the mountains
of Colorado to the shores of Maine.
Author of the Starlight Grille series, Serenity Harbor
Maine novellas, and the Cowboys of
Mineral Springs series, Lowe has also authored short romances for Woman’s World magazine. Her newest
novella is The Love Left Behind. Look for both a Christmas novel (The
Inn at Gooseneck Lane) and novella (Holiday Hitchhiker) later this
fall.
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3 comments:
Deb,
I read "Come Dance with Me". Great story!
i love your process for writing in the summer or winter.
Enjoyed your blog post!!
What a fun post! And now you've broadcast to the world that we writers have Imaginations! and it doesn't really make any difference what the weather is outside or where we are in relationship to the scenes we write. Perhaps what I need right now is to write a story set in the dead of winter. Snow drifts, blustery winds, Mr. Snowman's hat rolling down the street, his scarf in a windswept salute. Maybe that will help cool things down from the too high temperatures.
Great post. For me it doesn't matter what the immediate weather is either when I am writing. Love the way you express it though.
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