Comments on: Everyone’s Always in the Kitchen At Parties https://www.jackieashenden.com/everyones-always-in-the-kitchen-at-parties/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:29:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Rachael Johns https://www.jackieashenden.com/everyones-always-in-the-kitchen-at-parties/#comment-1413 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:29:14 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=491#comment-1413 Coming in late here, but such a great discussion! I’m trying to think if there’s a coffee/kitchen scene in my current wip. Actually my h&H joke about coffee but indulge in something else entirely *wink wink nudge nudge*.

I think if I do have these scenes, they’re ALWAYS in the middle – the section I’m currently tearing my hair out over at the moment!

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/everyones-always-in-the-kitchen-at-parties/#comment-1406 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:30:07 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=491#comment-1406 Eating out, yep, that’s another thing mine do a lot of, Suzanne!

]]> By: Suzanne Jones https://www.jackieashenden.com/everyones-always-in-the-kitchen-at-parties/#comment-1402 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:38:08 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=491#comment-1402 I don’t drink coffee – so neither do my characters. But they do eat out a lot (as I like to do – I’m another who doesn’t cook).

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]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/everyones-always-in-the-kitchen-at-parties/#comment-1397 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:58:54 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=491#comment-1397 Woohoo, Caroline! Yep, I can well imagine some good scenes in steam baths. Nice one!

]]> By: Caroline Storer https://www.jackieashenden.com/everyones-always-in-the-kitchen-at-parties/#comment-1396 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:58:11 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=491#comment-1396 Hi Jackie. Another thought provoking post. Thanks – must re-visit my ms’s and see where the key scenes are! At the moment I’m writing “Romans” so I can cheat on the unusual settings bit- I’ve had good scenes (if you get my drift) with wet H/h in the steam baths! Take care. Caroline x

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/everyones-always-in-the-kitchen-at-parties/#comment-1395 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:32:29 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=491#comment-1395 Romy – There is actually a mountain side scene? Lol! Definitely I need to break out.

Kaily – Oddly enough, I don’t much like cooking either. Maybe that’s why my characters don’t make each other food! Replacing the front door huh? Sounds like the hero of my wip! 🙂

]]> By: Kaily Hart https://www.jackieashenden.com/everyones-always-in-the-kitchen-at-parties/#comment-1394 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:48:47 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=491#comment-1394 Hey Jackie, you’re so funny. I think despite what we might want our books have some reflection of ourselves, so if that’s where you have the deep and meaningfuls…. Anway, I don’t cook; never had, have no interest in doing so and hope like heck I never have to. Consequently, I have never written a book where I have a scene in a kitchen. Kinda weird now I think about it because everyone needs to go in there at some point. Right? I tend to have my characters in action or flux or in the process of doing – something. The weirdest setting? I’m not sure I have weird or strange so much but in my current WIP my H & H disclose some of their feelings for each other while he’s replacing her front door. Guess, he figured it wasn’t secure enough based on the neighborhood in what she lived! She wasn’t impressed.

]]> By: Romy https://www.jackieashenden.com/everyones-always-in-the-kitchen-at-parties/#comment-1393 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:27:50 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=491#comment-1393 The most unusual place I’ve had my characters indulge in serious ocnflict talk was in a hot air balloon.

But your talk about mountain sides did get me thinking. Earlier this year, in “Last-Minute Proposal” (Harlequin Romance) Jessica Hart had her hero and heroine get to know one another while climbing a mountain. Not a coffee cup in sight, though I think the heroine did spend a fair portion of that scene dreaming of a steaming cup of coffee.

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/everyones-always-in-the-kitchen-at-parties/#comment-1392 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:11:48 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=491#comment-1392 Actually, that’s a really good point, Michelle. My kitchen scenes to date have dealt with the essential conflict but I can see a dinner scene which is comfy cosy but not so tension-filled. More of a ‘let me tell you about me’ kind of thing. Hmmm. Shall have to revisit that.

]]> By: Michelle Styles https://www.jackieashenden.com/everyones-always-in-the-kitchen-at-parties/#comment-1391 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:55:43 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=491#comment-1391 Jackie —

YOu might want to read Donald Maass on the subject of tension. The problem with kitchen scenes, even though the kitchen is often the heart of the home is that drinking scenes are notoriously low tension. YOu need to make certain that the tension is absolutely sky high at that point or the scene has to be cut.

I have done lots of strange settings. But it is not the settign that is the point, it is the makign certain that the scne moves the story forward and that the tension and CONFLICT is there.

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