Today, I want to do something a little different. Instead of teaching a new concept, I’d like to revisit an old topic and focus on practical application. There is so much information thrown out for writers to learn, and often the application part of it is left for writers to Read more
A while back I wrote a post on the two functions of scenes: action and reaction. Since writing that post, I found the origin on this concept called Scene-Sequel. It was developed by Dwight V. Swain in his book Techniques of the Selling Writer. Today I want to elaborate on Read more
In this post, when I say scene, I’m not referring to a setting but to part of a sequence of events. A scene in a book is marked by breaks. These can be a chapter break or just a line break. These symbolize a jump in the story to a Read more