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SCENE 29: Dear-Editor Talks about Scenes

The Stuff Between Scenes Guest Post by Deborah Halverson Join us on Facebook for a discussion of scenes. As you give thought to what happens in your scenes, give thought, too, to what happens between them. There’s a trove of information and emotion lurking in the white space separating the last line of one scene [...]

SCENE 15: How to Salvage a Scene

30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents Featured Today in Fiction Notes Store What if you are writing a scene and your gut tells you it’s not working? How do you figure out what is wrong? Scenes Need Action After writing a draft and realizing it was lousy, I re-read the synopsis of [...]

Line Editing

While we were traveling last week, I didn’t get any new scenes revised, but I did do some line editing. 3 Line Editing Strategies When I line edit, I’m trying to balance three things: Smooth, easy to read. First, I want the text to be smooth and easy to read. I try to read aloud [...]

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