Great Scenes can Make or Break Your Novel

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30 Days to Stronger Scenes

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• How to Spice Up Perfectly Good (but Boring) Scenes
• Rough Out a Scene: Goals, DOs, DON’Ts, and the Writing
• Grand Entrance: Pay Attention to This Character
• Does Your Scene Pivot: Creating Turning Points
• Where Am I? Setting the Scene
• Fight, Chase, Shoot, Battle! Action Scene Checklist
• 5 Amazingly Simple Ways to Transform Quiet Scenes into Exciting Scenes
• Scenes: The Skeleton of a Novel
• How to Choreograph a Great Action Scene
• General to Specific: From One Sentence to a Plot
• Tea Party or Fist Fights? Why Action Scenes are Hard to Write!
• Off-Stage Scenes Rarely Work – Unless You Are Scarlett
• Scene: Fast or Fast-Paced?
• Begin in the Muggle World: Opening Scenes
• Setting the Scene: Openings that Orient
• Fight Scenes: The Waltz of Death
• Possible Scenes: Choose the Most Dramatic
• Searching for a Scene
• Set the Scene: Scan
• Set the Scene: Zoom
• Set the Scene: Panorama
• Scenes: Think Like a Writer
• 30 Days to Stronger Scenes Series: TOC
• SCENE 30: Scene Checklist
• SCENE 29: Dear-Editor Talks about Scenes
• SCENE 28: Scene Length
• SCENE 27: Love Scenes
• SCENE 26: All Dialogue Scenes
• SCENE 25: 10 Scene Problems Solved
• SCENE 24: Stories that Spaghetti
• SCENE 23: Final Scenes
• SCENE 22: Special Scenes: Climax
• SCENE 21: Special Scenes: Set up big Scenes
• SCENE 20: Special Scenes: Big Scenes
• SCENE 19: Special Scenes: Openings
• SCENE 18: Special Scenes: Flashback Scenes: Dos and Don’ts
• SCENE 17: KaBlam! Dynamite Scenes
• SCENE 16: Aiming for Bull’s Eye
• SCENE 15: How to Salvage a Scene
• SCENE 14: Omit a Scene
• SCENE 12: Avoid 5 Plotting Mistakes by Using Scenes
• SCENE 11: Scene Cuts
• SCENE 10: Plotting with Scenes
• SCENE 9: Scene List v. Synopsis
• SCENE 8: List of Possible Scenes
• SCENE 7: Showdown in Every Scene
• SCENE 6: Keeping Scenes on Track
• SCENE 5: Beat Sheets
• SCENE 4: Plan a Scene
• SCENE 3: Scene v. Narrative
• SCENE 2: Elements of a Scene
• SCENE 1: What has the Most Potential for Improving Your Writing?
• 30 Days to a Stronger Scene in November
• Scenes: 5 Simple Questions for Revision
• 10 Checkpoints for Scenes
• Scene Quiz: Harvard Bar Scene
• Plotting with Scenes
• Goal disaster in Novel Revision
• Writing a Novel in Scenes
• Big Scenes
• Outline scenes
• How to Use Scenes to Plot
• Scene Box Text
• Choosing scenes
• Scene Cuts
• Novel diagnosis–scenes