30 Days Writing Meme -- Question Twenty Two

22. Tell us about one scene between your characters that you've never written or told anyone about before! Serious or not.

Isn't this a rehash of Q.10?

If they're not written, then chances are it's because those scenes don't exist -- I spend more time in edits taking scenes out than putting 'em in. I have to write the scene in the first place before I can tell whether or not to include it. And I'd definitely have told someone about a scene if it had the slightest chance of being included. My best friend is my sounding board (aka `has to listen to me whine and complain and generally bitch about pretty much every sentence in the book`. Lather, rinse and repeat for every book), and I'd run a scene by her, even if it was in the vaguest, fuzziest, unformed terms, even if it never made the first draft.

I guess in terms of scenes never written because the story just took a different path, there's the alternate ending to Human Nature that never saw the light of day. Let's put it this way, there really wasn't a HEA in the original idea. But the ending I envisioned when I first got to know the characters wouldn't have worked with the way they developed through the story. They changed too much, it wouldn't have been in character for any of them. So, although it `existed` in my thoughts when I first hashed out the plotline in my head, the scene itself never happened.

(For a partial explanation of why that happened with Human Nature specifically, please see Q.19 and direct all comments/complaints/"Thank you for not letting Cat turn your story into the dark, morose, depressing piece of gloom it surely could have been"s to Randall. All his fault.)