How to Write a Dynamite Scene Using the Snowflake Method (Advanced Fiction Writing)

How to Write a Dynamite Scene Using the Snowflake Method (Advanced Fiction Writing)

<h2>Want to Write a Dynamite Novel?</h2> <p><b>The secret</b> to writing a dynamite <i>novel</i> is to first write a dynamite <i>scene.</i></p> <p><b>Because if you can write</b> one terrific scene, you can write a hundred. And that’s a novel.</p> <p><b>This is a short book</b>, with just one goal—to teach you the simple principles you can use right now to design a powerful scene <i>before</i> you write it.</p> <p><b>If you’ve already written your novel</b>, you can use these same principles to make each scene better.</p> <h2>About the Book</h2> <p><b>How to Write a Dynamite Scene Using the Snowflake Method</b> will give you the power tools you need to write scenes that move your reader’s emotions.</p> <p><b>You’ll learn:</b></p> <ul> <li>The one thing your reader most desperately wants. And why.</li> <li>How to decide which character should have the point of view.</li> <li>The 2 kinds of scenes designed to give your reader a powerful emotional experience—and how to know which to use.</li> <li>5 ways to test that your lead character’s goal in each scene is perfect.</li> <li>How to end every scene so it leaves your reader <i>wanting more.</i></li> <li>Why dilemmas are good, and how to know when they’re ruining your story.</li> <li>4 ways to know that your character’s decision will drive your story forward.</li> <li>How to know when a scene is broken—and how to fix it.</li> </ul> <h2>Excerpt from Chapter 1:</h2> <p>Your reader desperately wants one thing.</p> <p>You have it in your power to give your reader that one thing.</p> <p>And what is that one thing?</p> <p>I could <i>tell</i> you what that one thing is, and you would nod and agree that yes, that one thing is clearly something all readers want.</p> <p>But <i>telling</i> you that one thing wouldn’t make it stick in your mind forever.</p> <p>I want it to stick.</p> <p>I’d rather <show> you that one thing. Once you’ve seen it, once you’ve lived it, you’ll never forget it. That one thing will be inside you, fueling everything you write.</p> <p>So let me tell you a quick story about one of our ancestors who lived many thousands of years ago in a small village on this planet we call home.</p> <p>When I say he’s our ancestor, I mean it literally—he’s your ancestor and he’s my ancestor and he’s every human’s ancestor.</p> <p>That ancestor of ours was once a thirteen-year-old boy, the newest man in the village, and the smallest.</p> <p>Imagine you’re that boy on the day when word comes to the village that there’s a killer tiger ravaging the village’s herd of goats.</p> <h3>The Tale of the Tiger</h3> <p>You’re furious. A drought has been burning the land for many months. That herd of goats is all that keeps your village from starvation.</p> <p>You’re also terrified. There’s only one way to get rid of a killer tiger. The village has to organize a hunt, find the tiger, and kill it. But that won’t be easy, because there’s nothing more dangerous in your world than a killer tiger.</p> <p>The village headman sends word around to the whole village. <i>All men meet in the village square, and bring your spear.</i></p> <p>When the messenger comes to your hut, he shakes his head and frowns. He thinks you’re too young to go.</p> <p>In your heart, you’re afraid he’s right. You only just became a man in the last month. You’re small. You’re skinny. You’re weak.</p> <p>But in your head, you know he’s wrong.</p> <p>If the village doesn’t kill the tiger, it’s going to steal every last goat, and the village is going to die.</p> <p>To save your people, you and every man in the village have to work together to kill the tiger.</p> <p>You know very well you might not come back. A thousand times in the village square, you’ve heard the village story-woman tell the Tale of the Tiger. You know that when a tiger is surrounded by men with spears, it always looks for the weakest man—and attacks that man.</p> <p><b>Click the book cover in the upper left corner to read more.</b></p>