A couple of weeks ago I wrote part one of my scene structure series, which featured the large-scale structure of a scene. In brief, a scene followed by the sequel. See this link: How to Write a Scene – part 1. Large scale structure of a scene. This new article also relies heavily on Dwight […]
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Writing Prompts on “How to Write Emotions”
This week’s writing prompt video is directly related to the lesson I published called: How to write emotions: Creating Character Emotions In which I look at:”Why is it sometimes hard to write emotion into a scene? We start writing what we know will be a strong scene but then we’re disappointed when the scene is […]
How to Write Emotions: creating Character Emotions
Why is it sometimes hard to write emotion into a scene? We start writing what we know will be a strong scene but then we’re disappointed when the scene is not as powerful as we thought it would be. What went wrong? Only 4 main categories of emotions? Eric Edson in “The Story Solution: 23 […]
Writing Prompts on “How to Write a Scene”
This week’s writing prompt video is directly related to the lesson I published called: How to write a scene? Part 1. The large-scale structure of a scene. This lesson goes into depth about scene construction scene –> sequel | action –> reaction. These writing prompts will help you test out those theories.
How to write a scene? Part 1. The large-scale structure of a scene.
Today I am looking at the large-scale structure of writing a scene. A dramatic scene, an opening scene, a middle scene – the structure remains the same. If you think of a story as a length of chain, you can imagine it is created of two basic links of building blocks: scene and sequel. The […]
Genre writing prompts for stretching your writing skills
Quick Cue Writing prompts this week will have you writing in and out of your genre and stretching your writing skills. We’re all about genre writing prompts. Why genre? Because most of us prefer to read in one or two genres… not surprisingly, we tend to write in those same genres. Or maybe you don’t […]