scene planning Archive
So, last time, I wrote that I had resisted the temptation to write the action scene showing my hero and best friend’s escape. I’m trying to cover it now, in summary, at the start of the next scene, with just …
Yep, I cut a scene – or rather combined it with another. That’s been one of the benefits of this visualization process and writing notes about how I want the scenes to go. Before, I had only loose scene ideas, …
A little more than half of those new scenes actually came at the airport days ago, when I was traveling home, but I did get through three today, finishing up with the midpoint of the story. While it’s a little …
Over the past two days of writing, I made it through 6 scenes of the visualization process – hopefully with more to come later today, but two of those scenes weren’t in my original plan. They came about because the …
In terms of scene progress, my hero has accepted the call and the group is approaching its first challenging escape. The trick with these scenes is that my hero is the weakest member of the group but I still have …
I was listening to an episode of 6-Figure Authors today about how to plan and write a novel in a month. Right. I’m almost at the 7-month point with this story, and in fact it is over 8+ months since …
This process of playing the scenes in my head and making notes about them feels tedious and slow – not because the scenes themselves are tedious, but because I am terrified that I am not doing it “right” and am …
I’m continuing my work on visualizing the scenes, one by one, though it is a constant struggle to make sure that I am making them interesting enough from the reader perspective and something that they would want to read. Today, …
What I’m trying to do now is to play through each scene in my head and visualize how they will go. So far, it’s slow going and I hope this is a skill that improves with practice. I don’t have …
Today, I wrote the main event timeline for my story, including significant events leading up to the inciting incident, as well as how the story plays out. It turns our that, at least as of this time, it takes place …