A Question That Has Nothing At All To Do With the Scene I Just Wrote

[snurri]

Didja ever write something that made you so uncomfortable with your own brain that you had to physically move away from the manuscript in order to rid yourself of the wiggins?

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[matthewsrotundo.livejournal.com]

Yes. Recently, in fact. A murder scene that literally nauseated me. And were not talking about gruesome dismemberment or anything like that.

I still get a little echo of that nausea when I reread it.

Others have told me that scene was pretty creepy, so I guess it works.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

That's sort of along the lines of the scene I'm dealing with. I think part of it is my concern over whether the story really required that I go there; I'm proceeding under the conviction that it did, but it's still giving me the creeps.

[matthewsrotundo.livejournal.com]

Trust your instincts.