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30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents Featured Today in Fiction Notes Stores Teen Fantasy EBook: All Dialogue Scenes? Not Really What if you’re one of those writers who like to develop the conflict in dialogue. Great. It’s a popular technique these days. But it’s very rare to really see a scene with [...]
30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents More Scene Problems – Solved In Scene and Structure, Jack Bickham suggest other problems that might arise in a scene. Here is my take on the problems he lists. Cast of thousands. The most dramatic conflict comes when two characters go head to head. More than [...]
30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents Featured Today in Fiction Notes Stores Stories that Lose Focus In Writing for Story, Jon Franklin says that, “As length grows linearly, complexity expands expotentially.” It’s easy to write a scene; to write a novel is hard. When someone writes without planning ahead, the danger is [...]
How to End a Story Well 30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents Featured Today in Fiction Notes Stores There’s a last special scene to consider and that’s the last scene in your book. This may or may not coincide with the climax of the story; traditionally there’s a denouement, a French word [...]
Climax Scene: The Biggest of the Big Scenes 30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents Featured Today in Fiction Notes Stores The climax scene of a story is extremely important. It’s the point at which everything comes to a head and is resolved. If you think about big scenes, this is the biggest: [...]
30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents Preparing for a Big Scene So, you know what your big scene is, but realize that some things need to be in place for the scene to work. Preparing for a big scene is important to its success. You can write the scene first, then go [...]
30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents Featured Today in Fiction Notes Stores In a poll of school librarians this month, 99% said book trailers are effective in interesting a student in a book! Wow! Read more about the survey here. What is a big scene in a novel? It’s a moment of [...]
30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents I’ve written about opening scenes so many times that today, I’m going to send you off to read some of these: Larger Than Life Character in Chapter 1. Maass suggests, for example, that you think of things your protagonist would never ever say, think or do; [...]
30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents Flashbacks Effective in Deepening Novel When you are writing or revising a novel, you want to be sure your story is believable and the characters motivated. Often, this means you must tell something that happened before the novel began. In other words, a flashback is a [...]
Top 5 Tips for Dynamite Scenes Guest Post By Roz Morris 30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents Have you got a scene that’s looking lifeless? Here’s how I pep it up. Have something change. No scene should ever go as the reader expects. If you have a character set out to buy [...]
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