Writing page-turning fiction depends on your ability to create rock-solid, believable scenes. Scenes act as dynamic structures that thrust both your characters and readers forward through conflict, baiting them with goals that may–or may not–be obtained. Writing good scenes makes the difference between a tale that crackles with energy and momentum and a story that falls flat. In "Novelist's Essential Guide to Crafting Scenes," Raymond Obstfeld leads you through the creation process, examining all the elements that ...
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Writing page-turning fiction depends on your ability to create rock-solid, believable scenes. Scenes act as dynamic structures that thrust both your characters and readers forward through conflict, baiting them with goals that may–or may not–be obtained. Writing good scenes makes the difference between a tale that crackles with energy and momentum and a story that falls flat. In "Novelist's Essential Guide to Crafting Scenes," Raymond Obstfeld leads you through the creation process, examining all the elements that go into making scenes successful, cohesive and compelling. Tackling topics like finding a scene's "hot spot," identifying its dominating purpose and avoiding a cliched ending, Obstfeld provides essential reading for novice and novelist alike. Using examples from film, short stories, and best-selling fiction, he documents why and how scenes work. You'll learn: what is (and isn't) a scene how to make scenes memorable how to use point of view how to focus on character, plot and theme how to make scenes pay off how to structure a scene how to use setting how to revise a scene the importance of first impressions Every page of "Novelist's Essential Guide to Crafting Scenes" opens a new window of opportunity for writers by offering valuable insight, articulate advice and expert examples. It's a reference, a road map and a romp, all rolled into one. So go on–make a scene. And make it unforgettable.
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I have loads of books on how to write fiction (70+ at the last scan of the bookshelf). Many seem to have been written at the behest of an agent, to an author, to make use of that "angle" they have just pontificated over with the aid of a pint... a single mediocre idea stretched into book form.
I have come to view "how to write" books in terms of bang per buck. One idea in one book costing 8 pounds (or dollars or whatever) is a one eighth of a bang per buck.
This book is not like those others. "Crafting Scenes" is rich in good advice, and examples, and explanations. Packed full of them. I would say better than 100 bangs per buck.
The only comparable book on my bookshelf is Dwight V Swain's Techniques of the $selling Writer (and possibly Walter Campbell/Stanley Vestal's "Writing: Advice and Devices".
I heartily recommend Obstfeld's "Crafting Scenes" to anyone learning to write fiction. I only wish I had discovered this book years ago.
It shows me how to craft scenes that will produce a specific response in a reader and play a particular role in both story and character arc.
