The simple fact is, if you’re going to write what can only
be described as a linking scene or a segue from one scene to another, it has to
be, relatively speaking, commonplace. And in this case, what is more
commonplace than two people riding home in a car. Does it matter who’s driving?
No, not in the context of the scene, but in this case the female lead is young,
only nineteen, and earlier in the book we’ve spent a lot of time dwelling on her
motivation for taking the new job is that it will be the first time she can
afford driving lessons. Since we haven’t yet shown her celebrating passing her
driving test, and as we’ve made such a thing about taking the lessons, we
couldn’t not have, it’s impossible for her to drive them home – so let the man
drive. Simple? Yes.
Sometimes you can’t actually avoid that stereotypical
situation, for the simple reason, it fits the plot and develops the story in the
direction you want it to go. The trick is, as always, making it happen
naturally.
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