What has the most potential for improving your writing? Learning to write a strong scene; then making sure every scene in your story is strong. It’s not mandatory—there are good books written without strong scenes—but I find that beginning to intermediate writers are more likely to succeed with a strong scene structure. Fiction Notes works to help you write stronger, better stories that will result in a contract! Here are 30 posts about writing stronger scenes.
SCENE 1: What has the Most Potential for Improving Your Writing?
SCENE 6: Keeping Scenes on Track
SCENE 7: Showdown in Every Scene
SCENE 8: List of Possible Scenes
SCENE 9: Scene List v. Synopsis
SCENE 10: Plotting with Scenes
SCENE 12: Avoid 5 Plotting Mistakes by Using Scenes
SCENE 13: Not Worthy of a Full Scene
SCENE 15: How to Salvage a Scene
SCENE 16: Aiming for Bull’s Eye
SCENE 17: KaBlam! Dynamite Scenes
SCENE 18: Special Scenes: Flashback Scenes
SCENE 19: Special Scenes: Openings
SCENE 20: Special Scenes: Big Scenes
SCENE 21: Special Scenes: Set up big Scenes
SCENE 22: Special Scenes: Climax
SCENE 23: Special Scenes: Final Scenes
SCENE 24: Stories that Spaghetti
SCENE 25: 10 Scene Problems Solved
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[…] 30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents Once you have a scene list, you need to decide which scenes to actually write. I’ve found it helpful to think about scenes as Zooms, or places where I want the reader to stop and spend some time noticing details. […]
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[…] 30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents Before we go much farther in writing and plotting with scenes, I want to give you an example of keeping things on track in a scene. Here are 5 things to monitor as you write your scene. […]
[…] 30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents This is the great Show-Don’t-Tell debate. When should you take the time in a story to present a fully developed scene? […]
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[…] 30 Days to a Stronger Scene Table of Contents Here’s a basic template for planning a scene. Later, when you get ready to write the scene, you might want to list individual actions in what’s called a “beat sheet.” But when you’re just planning scenes, you want these basics. […]
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[…] against prologues whose only purpose is to give back story. Instead, he prefers that a story start in present time with an immediate scene. And in general, I agree, while still reserving the idea that sometimes a dramatic prologue does […]
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