Your novel, memoir, or screenplay is made up of individual scenes, but the truth is, all those scenes are part of an escalating cause-and-effect trajectory. Each scene performs multiple tasks, including moving subplots forward, developing your characters, ratcheting up what’s at stake, and triggering events that ripple throughout the story.

In this class, you’ll learn how to:

 

• Make a scene work so that it’s both relevant and riveting.
• Avoid common mistakes writers make when writing scenes.
• Keep track of every layer in your story—scene by scene—from beginning to end.
• Stop writing scenes out of order and understand cause and effect.
• Plant seeds in your scenes to foreshadow the future.