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The Hot Scene

Who says that chronological order is always the best way to tell a story? Roy Peter Clark at Poynter says that good writing is not the stringing together of sentences but the construction of scenes:

Tom Wolfe argues that realism, in fiction or non-fiction, is built upon “scene-by-scene construction, telling the story by moving from scene to scene and resorting as little as possible to sheer historical narrative.” This requires, according to Wolfe, “extraordinary feats of reporting,” so that writers “actually witness the scenes in other people’s lives” as they take place.

Read more on how to craft good scenes, with practical information on how to make them yourself, go here.

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