This is one of my favorite parts of rewrites, looking at scenes and seeing the unexpected possibilities for impacting the story. It's easy to get lost in the weeds bit it's so rewarding when you find something g that makes your story stronger.
This was a great read, as usual. Reminds me of Dwight Swain's concept of "Scene and Sequel"--basically, that every scene is either a confrontation that ends in disaster (a scene) or the characters regrouping from the failure and planning the next confrontation (the sequel). If you've written neither scene nor sequel, it doesn't belong. You have some great tips here on how to fix that. (P.S. Thanks for the shout-out!)
This is one of my favorite parts of rewrites, looking at scenes and seeing the unexpected possibilities for impacting the story. It's easy to get lost in the weeds bit it's so rewarding when you find something g that makes your story stronger.
I love those moments when things start to fit together in unexpected ways.
This was a great read, as usual. Reminds me of Dwight Swain's concept of "Scene and Sequel"--basically, that every scene is either a confrontation that ends in disaster (a scene) or the characters regrouping from the failure and planning the next confrontation (the sequel). If you've written neither scene nor sequel, it doesn't belong. You have some great tips here on how to fix that. (P.S. Thanks for the shout-out!)
Scene and sequel. I hadn’t heard it put that way before, but I like it. (And no problem. Great books need more readers.)