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. SCENE 10: Plotting with Scenes
2. Revising the Outline
3. SCENE 18: Special Scenes: Flashback Scenes: Dos and Don’ts
4. SCENE 23: Final Scenes
5. Writing a Novel in Scenes