Thursday, 27 December 2012

Write More Professional Scenes Today

By Ronald Wilson


The most ideal way to write a scene is to focus on what the character is doing and how things are planning to progress for them in the overall story. It is helpful to jot down a few notes before writing the scene to help you plan out what you should include.

Among the things to think about before launching into full prose is 'what will change after the scene has been written?' Each scene is a unit of change. Something should happen or change in the story as a result of the scene, otherwise it may not exist.

The next thing you should consider is whether the scene is crucial to the overall story. If the scene is not essential in some way it should simply be omitted from the story. Writing needs to be concise to hold the reader's interest, so we don't want wasted words. The scene has to serve a purpose in whens it come to delivering information, emotional impact, or character development.

Following this, we need to decide where the scene should occur, and which characters need to be present. The more interesting and appropriate the backdrop is, the more impact it will have on the scene. And the characters who are present should only be the ones who serve a purpose in that scene. The fewer characters the better in most cases.

Next, you should incorporate a question into the scene. An intriguing question should be raised at the start of the scene which will grab the reader's interest, and this matter should not be answered until the very end of that scene. This generates pressure and suspense, and always keeps the reader turning the pages.

The last thing required before launching into the scene, is to put yourself into the mind's eye of the 'view point' character. Relax and close your eyes and picture you find yourself in their world. See things from their perspective, and immerse yourself into their surroundings. When you accomplish this, you have a more detailed feel for the details of the scene.

Once all these things are in place, you have a sound structure your scene, and you can confidently go full steam ahead with your writing.




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