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Sometimes you write a scene that you like just fine and is interesting in some ways, but just isn’t getting it done. We don’t have a lot of scenes like that, on the whole, because usually one of us will stop part-way into the scene and go, “No, this isn’t working. CUT CUT CUT!” (That's the beautiful thing about a writing partnership.) But sometimes we’re too in love with something to see it clearly, and that’s when our editor has to bring us to our senses. When it does happen, we'll post it here!
Deleted Scene from Crossroads - The Math of Mating
This deleted scene is set very early in Crossroads (between chapters 3 & 4) and probably won’t make much sense out of the context of the book…though you can always read it anyway if you want. :D
Bree’s Comments: In this case, it is at least 75% my fault. This is one of the scenes where we talk about the Math of Mating, which makes me laugh like the geek I am. The mating urge in the Southern Arcana universe is more science than magic, a mixture of instinct, chemistry, and pure physical attraction.
At one point I swore to Donna that Kat would have turned it into a formula, and we wrote a good portion of the book with a mathematically challenged but very funny (to us) math equation on my white board under the title “The Math of Mating.” (It involved the limit of Derek’s brain-processing power as chemistry approached infinity along with a few random variables.)
This is one of those silly little things that doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of the book–but I loved it! In the long run, though, it wasn’t really moving the book forward, so it had to go. CUT! (Cry!)
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