Writing the Perfect Scene
Having trouble making the scenes in your novel work their magic? In this article, I'll show you how to write the "perfect" scene.
Maybe you think it's impossible to write the perfect scene. After all, who can choose every word perfectly, every thought, every sentence, every paragraph? What does perfection mean, anyway?
Honestly, I don't know. Perfection is in the eye of the beholder. Style is a matter of taste.
But structure is pretty well understood. Maybe you can't write the perfectly styled scene. But you can write the perfectly structured scene. And that's a whale of a lot better than writing a badly structured scene.
A scene has two levels of structure, and only two. They are:
The large-scale structure of the scene
The small-scale structure of the scene
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