writing in scenes
Recently, I saw a blog post online about how you should write in scenes instead of in chapters, and honestly I really loved that idea and thought some of you would appreciate it as well. Right now, as a lot of you know, I am working on a WIP called Family Tears, and while I am not writing it in scenes, after reading the article I read, I feel as though I should be.
there are big benefits of writing in scenes
if you have something you know you want to include, a scene you’ve been imagining in your head, you can make it work and you can place the scene wherever you feel it should go and then just integrate it in with fillers and transitions.
it can help you be more organized. you can breakdown your chapters into a certain number of scenes you really want to include, and once you have those scenes, you can add more to it to make it smoother.
it can help you evenly distribute things out, and can make it easier while planning because you just have to decide how long you want the scenes in each section.
it will help you spot unessential scenes to the plot because they will be weaker than the ones you actually need, which will help you not stress out over the scene not working, because you can just take it out or fix it so that it works for what you want it to do.
To me, writing is a flexible craft that can be bent to your will, because you’re the creator. You don’t always have to follow a chapter by chapter breakdown, and if you’re getting tired of that cookie cutter, you can try something new and see if it actually makes you progress more as a writer.
If anyone else has another way they like to breakdown their writing, I’m super interested in these mechanisms.