Making a Scene

Brian Stumbaugh
Sep 2, 2018 · 4 min read
Photo by Elijah O’Donell on Unsplash

I’ve been thinking a lot about making scenes.

Not that I do that in public often, but I sure do it a lot when I’m writing. So to clarify, I’m talking about the scenes writers craft when telling a story, not the fracas or tumult that can result when people behave badly in public, although , come to think of it, the latter often ends up the fodder for the former. No, I’ve been ruminating on the difference between scene and story, and how…

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Brian Stumbaugh

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Brian Stumbaugh is a fiction writer, blogger, and essayist. See more of his work at http://brianstumbaugh.net and follow him on Twitter @brianstumbaugh

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