When I first started writing, I wrote stories filled with exposition or summary without even knowing it. I
was writing by instinct based on my years of experience as a reader and I didn’t know the technical aspects of writing, the craft of developing stories that work.
That’s a great phase to be in, because all things are possible and we’re learning so much about ourselves as writers and – if we seek it out – we’re also learning lots about craft. The quality of our writing can grow exponentially as we learn new techniques.
Scene-building is one of those essential skills for a writer because the scene is a basic building block of narrative. At its most basic level, a novel, or memoir, is fundamentally a stacked set of scenes linked together by exposition.
What makes a scene anyway?
A scene is a unit or section of a story that contains the following elements:
e.g. Susan and...
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