scene planning Archive
Today, I wrapped up the scene where my hero gets into a mysterious carriage that her best friend promises will take her safety and then jumped to the start of the scene where they arrive at that “safety.” In the …
Today was my first day writing new words in my story since I got the new computer and started importing old words in. In the meantime, I’ve gone through some serious self-doubt about the last couple of scenes I’d written …
This morning, I finished importing all of the words from my broken computer days and have caught up to the point where I can start writing new scenes again. I got the last 2600 words imported today, and did so …
I know where my story needs to go next, in general, but I hadn’t thought the scenes out this far in advance, so I’m at the point where I need to create them one-by-one with only the memory of my …
I’m rereading the chapters of Story Engineering about how to write scenes, and the gap between how I have written my scenes so far and how this book makes it clear that I should be writing them is disheartening. In …
Yesterday, after writing my daily update, I got some extra time and went back to finish the scene then write the outline for my next one, thinking that I would get right into the writing this morning. But I’d forgotten …
After a couple of days of wrestling with the idea, I’ve decided to try writing scene 4 from the point of view of a different character. While I was torn about it, the worst thing that can happen is that …
Today, I was outlining the third scene, plus planning the general gist of the fourth , so that I know where this one will lead. Fortunately, scene 3 takes my hero back to a setting she visited in the first …