Episode Synopsis "Tactical Disasters, Meaningful Change, and More Scene Rules. Oh, My!"

After last episode’s deep dive into scene structure, we thought we’d ask a few published novelists and professional editors if they use scene goals in their writing/editing. Then, for our podcast proper, we move beyond the scene basics into more advance concerns, like does that disaster you carefully crafted have the proper scope, immediacy, finality, and does it steer your story in the right direction. But we still need to get that pig back home, and in Chapter 6, Bickham points out (with not one, but two numbered lists) other things that can go wrong with scenes, including not having enough “going wrong.”

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More episodes of the podcast Words to Write by Podcast

• ChatGPT, Write me my Novel
• Bend It Like Bickham (the scene, that is)
• Dramatic Principals & Devices FTW
• Common Scene Errors
• Dispatches from a DIY Writing Retreat
• The One Where We Go on a Writing Retreat
• Getting Wild with Scene and Sequels
• Speeding Up and Slowing Down your Novel
• Sequels: the Glue that Holds Scenes Together
• Tactical Disasters, Meaningful Change, and More Scene Rules. Oh, My!