BLOG QUESTION ADV: WRITING A SCENE

What should you be thinking about when writing a scene for the first time? What does this video have to say about this? What should you be thinking about when rewriting a scene? What does this video have to say about that?

In the first draft, when writing a scene, you should keep the scene simple. You should ask yourself these two main questions: What do the characters want, and what happens in the scene to move the story forward? In a scene, characters should learn something, or the world should change. All scenes should change the trajectory of the story in some way and push it forward. These changes can be huge or minor, but they should all drive the story forward. When you start rewriting a scene, this is where you can add all the details. Ask yourself, what do the characters want? What is the specific problem in the scene? What creates the scene conflict? How do the characters try to get what they want? How does the scene change the overall story? Now that you have all these questions, you can use them as prompts and answer them through the scene.