SCENE
Writing in scenes represents the difference between showing and telling. The lazy, uninspired writer will tell the reader about a subject, place, or personality, but the creative nonο¬ction writer will show that subject, place, or personality, vividly, memorably—and in action. In scenes.
Scene: A scene usually dramatizes an interaction between characters, but almost always dramatizes at least one character in the moment, even if the events are part of a flashback. This is the most comment “unit” or way in which the elements of a story are expressed. Scenes tend to include both description and dialogue.
Scene: A scene usually dramatizes an interaction between characters, but almost always dramatizes at least one character in the moment, even if the events are part of a flashback. This is the most comment “unit” or way in which the elements of a story are expressed. Scenes tend to include both description and dialogue.
- EXAMPLE
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Henry met the somewhat hairy, husky man half-way across the street, already flustered from a flat tire, the heat of the day, and now having to walk home with a big bag of groceries.
“Hi,” said the man, who seemed to have a very muscular nose, “I was wondering if you could show me the way to the pet store?”
“It’s to the left down that alley,” Henry said, without even thinking about it.
“Thanks.”
The strange man started to walk down the alley when a huge shadow flashed downward, and grabbed him up.
Henry dropped his groceries with a scream, looked up, and realized that not only had he just given directions to a huge talking hamster, but a dragon had just pulled the poor creature right up into the sky.
“Let him go!” he cried out, to the two rapidly receding dots. Even though he didn’t know the hamster at all. Was that discriminatory against dragons? he thought as he fainted dead away in the street.
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