Scenes & Pacing & Liar Liar Pants on Fire by Susan Marlene

​Scenes & Pacing &
Liar Liar Pants on Fire


Structure of a Scene

• Each scene has a beginning, middle, and ending. Each chapter of you book may contain one or more scenes.
• Beginnings should have a hook at the start—the goal of the character strong enough to have a relatable or emotionally charged disruption and an ending that has the reader asking for more.

 
Let’s use information from the book--
EMOTIONAL VAMPIRES by Albert J. Bernstein, PH. D. as motivation for a scene. On pages 75—80, Bernstein shares how liars think and operate to control others.
A liar, if you have one in your story, can be quite useful to spice up a fictional scene. Talk about motivation for story—let’s have a liar mess up the protagonist’s world and then shift the blame on him/her and see what happens.

We shared discussion from the EMOTIONAL VAMPIRES book and did an exercise of writing a scene as a group which ended up as a cozy murder mystery beginning. :) 
 
I also shared how I use information from these amazing author/teachers about plotting story.  

PLOTTING STRUCTURE:    Adapted from: Michael Hauge’s “Six Stage Plot Structure”; K.M Weiland’s STRUCTURING YOUR NOVEL, Essential Keys for Writing an Outstanding Story; and WRITE YOUR NOVEL FROM THE MIDDLE by James Scott Bell

All in all we had a great time and learned from one another! I'm so grateful for our writers! 

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And I don't want to neglect saying that Sue Fink opened our meeting with prayer, Sarah shared a wonderful devotion that we all encouraged her to publish, and Rebecca McLafferty shared a very special grammar tidbit straight from her family tree--her grandmother! Well done Penzers! See you next month when award winning author, Regina Scott will teach our lesson! 


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