Revising Scenes

I’m back in the trenches here, revising scenes.

I’m looking at a single-spaced page of my current WIP. I’ve done the Scene Box Test only to find that there are four boxes on this single page. That means four scenes.

Yes, a scene can be accomplished in a single sentence or single paragraph, but I don’t think I did that on this page. Instead, I was just trying to throw things onto the page and cover all the connections between subplots.

So, my revision task for today is to sort out all those scenes and see if I can combine some, sharpen others, maybe omit one or two. Hopefully, the result will be a page of tension that pulls the reader through the story.

Related posts:

1. Omit Scenes
2. Writing a Novel in Scenes
3. Choosing scenes
4. Big Scenes
5. Revising the Outline

Revise with confidence.