The Secrets of Story: Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating Readers by Matt Bird

Author:Matt Bird [Bird, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2016-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

Is one of the scene partners not planning to have this conversation (and quite possibly have something better to do)?

You’re writing a scene. A man learns some shocking news. He goes home to tell his wife. He walks into his apartment, where she’s been waiting for him to come home. She asks what’s wrong. He tells her everything.

What does she say in response? Well, we don’t care what she says because the scene is already dead. Why was she just waiting for him to come home? She had nothing better to do?

In how many ways does this sabotage the scene?

She has nothing to do but talk, because she has nothing in her hands and no business to complete.

She has no goal of her own to accomplish rather than have this conversation.

The scene is drained of conflict because she wants to have this conversation and in fact needs to have it, since she has nothing better to do.

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