Write three to five sentences summarizing the scene you read from act i of the miracle worker8/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Scenes don’t so much begin as launch-often in the midst of an event or activity. What’s the best way to start and end a scene? The reader should feel as though every scene has purpose, deepens character, drives the story forward, and ends in such a way that he just has to know what happens next. If you’ve never thought much about the shape of a scene, consider it a self-contained mini-story with a rising energy that builds to an epiphany, a discovery, an admission, an understanding, or an experience. Each scene takes us into a crucial moment of your characters’ story and should engage both our emotions and our minds by creating real-time momentum or action. ![]() When writing fiction (or even narrative nonfiction), scenes are microcosms of your larger plot. Note from Jane: Today’s guest post is excerpted from the recently released Writing Deep Scenes by Martha Alderson and Jordan Rosenfeld (Writer’s Digest Books).
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