How to Captivate Readers on the Scene Level
Sell more stories, engage your readers, and create memorable pieces.
The Way You Write Scenes is Wrong
Most writers stick to a basic cause and effect, or conflict and consequence, ordering of their scenes.
Jack was bad->Jack’s dad punished him->Jack got angry->Jack’s dad punished him again->Jack got revenge. THE END
While there is forward motion and conflict present in this type of story, it is not enthralling or page-turning. It simply goes until it stops. It also doesn’t create an effect on the reader that is memorable. Why? It’s not playing on emotional beats or giving readers time to engage with the story and characters.
In this tutorial, we won’t focus on how to write scenes in a particular order, but how to put them together once you’re done writing. That’s because a lot of writers write differently. Some writers write from the end or pick a couple of major starting points or just write what they feel in the moment.
What’s Genre Got to Do With It?
When we start talking about putting our scenes in the right order (for our reader and our characters), we…
