Tactical Disasters, Meaningful Change, and More Scene Rules. Oh, My!

Words to Write by

After last episode’s deep dive into scene structure, we thought we’d ask a few published novelists and professional editors if they use scene goals in their writing/editing.

Then, for our podcast proper, we move beyond the scene basics into more advance concerns, like does that disaster you carefully crafted have the proper scope, immediacy, finality, and does it steer your story in the right direction. But we still need to get that pig back home, and in Chapter 6, Bickham points out (with not one, but two numbered lists) other things that can go wrong with scenes, including not having enough “going wrong.”

Armed with all this knowledge, we apply Bickham’s notecard strategy to our own books’ scenes. And because we’re geeks, so we had fun!
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