Comments on: Building Scenes https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/08/building-scenes/ Author of the Outlander Series Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:45:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: LewistonBaker https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/08/building-scenes/comment-page-3/#comment-2451 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:04:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/08/building-scenes/#comment-2451 Oh My Goodness that was so marvelous. I thoroughly enjoyed hearing your thought processes as you wrote that scene. It’s always amazed me, as I’ve read your books, that you’ve not only been able to create a pleasing visual picture, but also an emotional one, a linear one (presenting then, now and what’s to come), and with each character’s voice so clear and discernable. Wonderful!

These characters are so full and rich and inhabit such a warm place in my heart, thanks for sharing your process in bringing them to life for me. Of particular endearment, for me, is feeling Claire and Jaime growing older and feeling their love deepen and mature, while still getting lost in their physical connection. It’s so beautiful to read.

Thanks for allowing us to be a fly on the wall and watch you as you work your craft.

]]> By: Vicki https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/08/building-scenes/comment-page-3/#comment-1909 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:56:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/08/building-scenes/#comment-1909 Beths:
Yes, gotta watch those rope swings. Maybe Diana can work that into a story! : )

Ah yes… seed ticks. I have worked several summers outdoors (in the past) I had a tick in a very personal and private place one time. Ouch!

]]> By: BethS https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/08/building-scenes/comment-page-3/#comment-1908 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:21:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/08/building-scenes/#comment-1908 Vicki: I think the take-home message is to stay off of rope swings. I am sorry for all of your troubles. If my fossil-bra story made you feel better, should I tell you that the second part of the biology trip saga involved hordes of seed ticks invading places that only a very close friend should be asked to reach?

]]> By: mamaraven https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/08/building-scenes/comment-page-3/#comment-1906 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:03:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/08/building-scenes/#comment-1906 Thank you for the insight into how you work your magic!

Any word on when the excerpts you mentioned earlier might be posted? Sorry to be pushy, but even kind people tend to be a little crazy about their addictions. :)

]]> By: andescruz https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/08/building-scenes/comment-page-3/#comment-1905 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:50:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/08/building-scenes/#comment-1905 wow. this was amazing to read how you think when you write!

i am not a writes by profession, but purely for fun.

i have admired your books since only two were there, and have enjoyed each one deeply. and now getting to read your blog is a special treat. you become more human, and wonderful

thanks for sharing!!! this was wonderful to see how your mind travels along a path.

]]> By: Vicki https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/08/building-scenes/comment-page-3/#comment-1904 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:24:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/08/building-scenes/#comment-1904 Beths,
Well, my DH did think he dislocated his knee at first… well, he DID dislocate a big chunk of bone. Your friend was lucky! I am sure she was in a lot of pain tho! ‘Fossil Bra’.. that is funny!!!!

Vicki (aka Piper Mom from the LOL boards)

]]> By: BethS https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/08/building-scenes/comment-page-3/#comment-1903 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:51:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/08/building-scenes/#comment-1903 On the subject of rope swings, I had a friend in college on a biology field trip which somehow also included swinging out over a river on a rope swing with too much slack, thus causing her shoulder to be neatly dislocated. Because they were in a remote location, the only doctor they could find fixed her up with a cast/contraption/torture device that apparently was last used in the 1930′s in Outer Slovenia (this according to the orthopedic surgeon she saw when she got home three weeks later). It looked like a plaster tube top with one shoulder strap. My friend instisted on remaining with the group for the rest of the trip, despite her discomfort, but had to endure being called “fossil bra” the whole time.

]]> By: Vicki https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/08/building-scenes/comment-page-3/#comment-1902 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:04:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/08/building-scenes/#comment-1902 Thanks Diana!
Hope Doug is feeling better!!!
Randy’s problem started almost 4 yrs ago. He broke his leg on Sept. 11, 2004 at a Cub Scout Campout Obstacle course. It was a rope swing. Someone tied up the rope wrong and there was slack in the rope. When he swung out he came down on his leg. He broke a chunk off the tibia plateau and put a bunch of vertical cracks across the bone. Now he has no cartilage left and the joint is a mess. He had to get the 2 plates and 12 screws out in preparation for a knee replacement. That surgery was in July. When it finally stopped bleeding and seemed healed (a month later), he started feeling like he got the flu and it then began to seep. Like always, it was over a weekend. He saw the knee doctor, who sent him to an Infectious disease doctor. They started him on the antibiotics… 2 by IV. He had an allergic reaction to one of them and ended up in the ER from anaphylactic shock. He is doing better. They did an MRI too. We have to go to the knee doctor on Tues. to see what to do next. Too bad… it seems neither maggots or leeches will help at this time. He said “No Thanks!” when I mentioned it! ; )

I did manage to write a little piece for the SiWC contest. I have to finish editing and email it.

BTW, the Trail of Tears/Trial of Courage/Trail of Death was also in Indiana. It affected the Pottawatomi Indians here.
Take Care!

]]> By: Diana Gabaldon https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/08/building-scenes/comment-page-3/#comment-1901 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:08:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/08/building-scenes/#comment-1901 Dear Vicki–

Yowch! A bone infection sounds Very Nasty; hope your husband’s feeling better soon!

]]> By: Vicki https://dianagabaldon.com/2008/08/building-scenes/comment-page-3/#comment-1900 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:23:00 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2008/08/building-scenes/#comment-1900 Hi Diana!
Awesome, as usual!!! Thanks so much for sharing your “building scenes” info with us…as well as another visit with Jamie and Claire! Writing has been a bit more of a challenge lately for me… besides life, work, a DH with a bone infection in his knee and on IV antibiotics… we got a kitten a few weeks ago. She is about 2 1/2 mo. old now… and loves to jump onto the keyboard in the way when I try to write! Remids me of Adso!!! ; )

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