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"The time was... the place smelled of..."
The dramatic scene is the container for drama. The Scene comes from Greek Drama. The
playwright Aeschylus put two characters in the middle of circle at high noon, gave each
character an agenda, and watched them duke it out. Scene. Drama. Agenda. Action. Sweat.
The scene is a place to work story, a time-space-place container for two characters
ready to die for what they believe in. Scenes are like building blocks for your novel.
A scene has a time-limit. One to three five minutes in movies. Ten to twelve pages in
a novel. Scenes help to pace your narration. If your narration wanders, the cure is to
write a scene. Use these parts: Setting, Character, Action and dialogue,
Complication/Intruder, Climax/resolution. We’ll get you going with the first two parts of a scene:
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1. Setting: The time was... the place smelled of...
2. Character: His/her hairdo looked like...
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