You know those scenes that are just not quite right. It's a scene you know you have to have to tell the story you're writing. So, what do you do about it?
Check out this discussion on the Books and Writers Forum.
Here's a list of the suggestions made by the various writers.
- change the venue of the scene
- explore alternative choices of action
- give yourself more time
- change POV for the scene
- play with phrases to hunt for the kernel
- pretend it's written and write the consequence scene
- look for issues in the story that make the planned scene is not viable and decide if you need to abandon this scene.
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Useful Links!
I've got a bumper crop of links for you, too!
Check out Anne R. Allen's Ten Commandments of Social Media Etiquette for Writers There's a lot of good info here.
From Writer Unboxed, try The Art of Creating Memorable Villains Whatever Your Genre
Besides you might be writing crap and that's okay. Read Charlotte Rains Dixon's The Benefits of Writing Crap to find out why. ;-)
Have you ever heard to start in media res? If you want to know what it really means and how to do it, check out Kristen Lamb's Starting the Story "In the Action"...
Also check Kristen Lamb's post of Character Arcs.
4, 5, and 6 work best for me. I used to do more outlandish things, like veer into fantasy or realism and just keep blabbing, but my characters are more real nowadays and don't allow that sort of thing unless they wish it.
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Thanks, Deniz. I think you've found your genre. Sometimes it takes awhile. I think about all those years I wrote SF... ;-)
ReplyDeleteHope your scene has cracked open for you! Those are some good ways to get around a difficult piece. 4,6, and 7 work best for me.
ReplyDeleteThe benefits of Writing Crap.....sounds like it was meant for me.
LOL! Sara, I hear you on writing crap. ;-) The scene is still hard, but I'm working on other things right now. Maybe I'll find a crack when I come back to it.
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