Staci Troilo shares the importance of building scenes in your novels on the Story Empire #blog.
Ciao, SEers. Last time, we discussed Dwight Swain’s concepts of scenes and sequels. (If you missed that post, you can find it here.) Remember, a chapter’s scenes can be one of two things, a scene or a sequel. Today, we’re going to go deeper into the concept of scenes.
What are scenes?
Scenes are the “proactive” units of a story. They introduce and advance goals, conflicts, and disasters. Scenes should have all three items before advancing to the following sequel. Why must they include all three? Because all three are necessary for tension. And without tension, there’s no reason for a reader to turn the page.
Goals:
A goal is simply what your POV character desires. It could be:
- an object (the Holy Grail)
- a position (POTUS)
- a state of being (overcome an injury)
- a change in status (going from captive to freedom)
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Many thanks, Jacquie. 🙂
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Good article from Stacy. Thanks for sharing it.
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She does a great job of clarifying the story process. I always get an ah-ha moment! 🙂
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Very good information, Ataci. Thank you for reblogging, Jacquie. 😊
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I learn so much from the Story Empire!
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So did I. I appreciate Staci is sharing so much about writing!
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A great share, Jacquie.
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These posts are so helpful 🙂
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Too bad my friend has now published her book Jacquie, this is another goldmine!
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Congrats to her!
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