By: C.S. Lakin
Continuity is so important in a novel. Readers
should be able to move from one scene to the next without effort. Without
struggling to figure out when the scene is taking place and
how much time has passed since the prior scene with your characters.
Scenes are strung together, like pearls in a
strand. Each should be flawless and beautiful and contribute to the overall
effect of the story. One of the ways to ensure your scenes are strung together
effectively is to examine the way you move from one scene to the next.
We’ve covered most of the items in my scene
structure checklist since the year began, and I hope these posts are
helping you to get scene structure under your belt. Faulty scenes are the most
problematic issue I see in the critiques I do, and that’s why we’re taking time
to go deep.
In this post we’re going to look at this item on
the scene structure checklist:
___ My scene clearly indicates how much time has
passed since the last scene with these characters as well as the previous scene
in my novel (if different)
Clear
Passing of Time
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