Creating Effective Scenes
In writing scenes, three primary elements of great fiction writing and storytelling are functioning pervasively: setting, characterization, plot movement. One will predominate, but the three are always integrated, all contribute to the effect of a good scene, and every element is specifically acting in the story being created and developed; no extraneous or unrelated ideas or images are used. Setting Readers need orientation to time and place. Once time and place are established in a story, readers need to be updated in any scene where place of story action has changed, or where significant change in time has occurred. And … Read More…