Tuesday's Writer's Tip - More on How - Scenes - Opening #MFRWauthor #BooksWeLoveLTD #amwriting #Scenes #Opening

From now on, I'll be looking at some of the scenes needed to make a book complete. Remember, scenes have three purposes.

1. To show character development

2. To provide information

3. To advance the plot.

Hopefully, the Opening Scene should fulfill one of these purposes. In this scene, you are introducing a character and showing a bit of what they are like. This scene can be just one of the main characters or more than one can be shown but focus on one character. Here, is where you can introduce what kind of plot the story will follow. and give a bit here about the what and why. If you can manage it you need to provide information like when and where the story is taking place.

I looked at some of my own stories and saw how different the openings can be. In one, a medical suspense, the shadow character opens the story. There is no name given nor a description but through his thoughts you learn a lot. This scene also establishes one of the important places of action, the hospital and also the reader learns a bit about the plot. The kind of story is established.

Other openings can be a meeting between the hero and heroine or the villain and one of the main characters. You can establish the hero or the heroine and give lots of hints about what the story is to become.

Also the opening scene needs to give the reader the type of story it will be. Is it a mystery, a suspense, a romance, a fantasy or science fiction story. I judge contests and what I find is often the beginning writer will have a great first line but then nothing happens or they head into the backstory without moving the story forward. Often the information given could come in later during a conversation or some other mention. Often it is something the writer needs to know and not the reader.

So when you're starting a story, remember the three things a scene can do. If you achieve one, good, two, great and three fabulous. Keep the tome of the story to the genre you're writing. There's nothing worse than thinking you're going to be reading a comedy and find it turns into a tragedy partway through the book.

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Tuesday's Writer's Tip - Now To The How #MFRWauthor #BooksWeLoveLTD #How

The Who, What, When and Where have been explored. Now to the How. How may mean something different to some people, but to me, How is the road map of the way the writer moves from the opening to the end. To do this the writer has to write scenes. Scenes mean interaction between the characters. This could be the main characters with each other or a main character and a secondary one. During scene things have to happen. A scene isn't a static event.

What does have to happen in a scene. There are three major things. One is showing character development. Two is setting the scene or showing where the events occur. Three is providing the reader with information.

When writing a scene fulfilling one of the elements is necessary. Fulfilling two is good. Fulfilling three is great. So when you're writing a scene, you need to think of what you are showing the reader. Showing is also important. Just telling doesn't provide the action and tension needed for a good story. So in each scene show some action. This doesn't have to be knock down drag them out kind
of action but some interaction between two characters or between the character and him or herself.

So that what one has to think about. In the next few segments, I'll look at several of the important scene a book needs.

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