But back when I was drafting Wicked Deception, I needed to go back and refresh my memory on an entire scene because it played into the scene I was writing that day.
Most of it was okay. I could see where it needed to be fleshed out or trimmed down, but that's for the second draft. Right now, all I needed was some information.
And then I saw it. Er, maybe I should say then I read it.
Or tried to read it.
Somehow this sentence made sense to me when I wrote it. The second part of it still made sense, but as I read and re-read and read again the beginning portion, for the life of me, I had no clue what I was trying to write. I still have no clue what I was trying to say after multiple re-reads and mulling time.
I left it and will doubtlessly end up cutting it as I revise the story, but I wanted to hang on to it until I had a hint of what I was trying to convey.
I'd like to blame it on fast drafting, but I don't write like that, so it was just, um, something I guess I understood when I wrote it, but wasn't clear (even a little bit) later, even to me. First drafts can be horrifying. This is a case in point.
