Have you listened to The Editing Podcast?
I love the fact craft advice is available in multiple formats. Sometimes you can learn just the thing you need from a short article or, like this, a 30-min episode.
In ‘Scene Technique’, Lisa Poisso discusses with hosts Louise and Denise what a scene is (and isn’t).
And there’s something she says that really resonates with me, since it’s exactly this point that I’m working on with one of my writing coaching clients at the mo.
She says:
First drafts are really more for building than for writing and so you need to just get it down so you have something to work with. You need your materials first. And then you can go back and figure out: ‘Oh, this little bit of information here, this was really mostly for me to figure this out.’ Readers don’t need to see this. And the way you can tell that is by knowing what scenes can do and what scenes should do.
So I suppose my question today is: How do you decide what readers need to see (and know)?
I have some questions for you:
- What’s a scene? What isn’t?
- What can a scene do?
- What should a scene do?
- What makes the cut and what doesn’t?
Share your thoughts in the comments or email me: contact@cherryedits.com
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