The Art and Craft of Writing: Secrets for Taking Your Writing to the Next Level by L. Jagi Lamplighter

Author:L. Jagi Lamplighter [Lamplighter, L. Jagi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781953739049
Publisher: Wisecraft
Published: 2021-03-13T05:00:00+00:00

Variation

Even if all your scenes have dramatic action (i.e., while walking in the garden with the cat, the main character activates a trip wire that opens a trap door, dropping him into the center of a fight going on in the underground headquarters of the villain) it is sometimes nice to start a scene with a in-depth description or a gentle moment merely for the sake of variation.

Readers need breathers as well as action. A moment taken sniffing the hyacinths and feeling the breeze that is ruffling the parakeet’s feathers can make the surprise drop into the busy secret underground headquarters even more unexpected.

How much breather vs. action—how many scenes to open in the midst of things vs. otherwise—depends upon your genre. For instance, a romance would be likely to have more gentle scene openings than a thriller.

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