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\"car-mirror-1145383_1280\"<\/a>The wait for news from publishers about the fate of the mystery novel See Jane Run!<\/em><\/a> continues. Pretty typical in the book world, so instead of checking email 10 times a day, I’m plowing ahead with the second book in the series, See Jane Sing!<\/a> Since the last update on that book’s progress, I’ve written her out of the snowdrift, where her cherry red VW bug was stuck fast during her return trip from Thanksgiving with her family in Iowa. I am quickly discovering the challenges of writing mystery novel sequel snowstorm scenes. Here are ten of them.<\/p>\n

10. Creating a recap of the previous book that gives new readers enough information to read the second book in the series and is so captivating, they are compelled to purchase the first book in the series.<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 Perfecting the timing so the driver has gone too far down a desolate, gravel road to turn back when the snowstorm hits while leaving enough miles and time for the formation of a large snowdrift, so the beaching of a VW Beetle to seem plausible.<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0 Describing how to substitute an empty orange juice can for bathroom facilities when snowbound without providing TMI.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 Unearthing a variety of verbs for walking through deep snow. As in wading, plowing, plodding, etc. (Your suggestions welcome in the comment box.)<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 Finding verbs for putting on winter gear. As more ways to describe donning gloves, hats, boots, coats. (Once again, your suggestions are welcome!)<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Cooking a variety of turkey leftover dishes popular 30 years ago. (Yup, your suggestions are coveted.)<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Deciding what mistakes to fix and what changes to make immediately and which ones to leave until the second draft.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Writing dialogue when the character who rescues Jane and her snowbound car hardly says a word.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Conveying the joy an elementary teacher feels when she returns to school after vacation and can once again enter the world of childhood with her students.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Keeping from getting in the car and heading west when writing about a tiny, fictional, South Dakota town makes a writer homesick for the place where she once lived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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