How to Write a Scene That Earns Its Place
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How to Write a Scene That Earns Its Place
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How do you write a scene that actually earns its place in the story? A scene can be well "structured", full of dialogue, conflict, action, or exposition and still feel like nothing happened.
In this episode, we talk about how a scene is a specific sort of container, and how to fill it. You'll learn how to separate activity in a scene from real change, choose a change target, and use a simple "dial" to track what changes and by how much.
This approach works for outliners and discovery writers, and it leaves room for slow burns, fast changes and even intentional stillness.
Along the way, we'll use Robert McKee's Story as a jumping-off point and adapt and simplify the idea for prose fiction, comics, screenplays, and other forms of fiction.
The question to carry back to your manuscript: What will be different because you spent the reader's time here?
Questions this episode helps answer:
- How do you write a scene that actually moves a story forward?
- What is the purpose of a scene in fiction?
- How do you know whether a scene is necessary or earning its place?
- Does something meaningful have to change in every scene?
- How can outliners and discovery writers use the same scene-writing tool?