Writing Deep Scenes: Plotting Your Story Through Action, Emotion, and Theme

Writing Deep Scenes: Plotting Your Story Through Action, Emotion, and Theme

<div><p>Take a Deep Dive into Plot and Scene and Improve Your Writing</p><p>Whether you're planning your first novel or have already written a first draft, you need to master the concepts of plot and scene to truly realize your story's potential. <i>Writing Deep Scenes</i> teaches you how to write strong, layered, and engaging scenes--the secret to memorable, page-turning plots. It's filled with practical tools for building layers and nuance into your scenes, employing the right scene types at the right junctures, and developing a profound understanding of how plot and scene intertwine.</p><p>Inside you'll learn:</p><ul><li>How scenes are comprised of three key layers: action, emotion, and theme.</li><li>How to recognize each layer and weave them seamlessly into a scene.</li><li>How to develop an intricate relationship between the action and emotion in every scene.</li><li>How thematic imagery embedded in scenes increases a story's tension and contributes to the story's meaning.</li></ul>Using contemporary examples from a variety of genres, <i>Writing Deep Scenes</i> provides an effective method for plotting at the scene level. Use these techniques and enrich your fiction and memoirs with page-turning suspense and pathos, and explore new depths in every story you write.</div>