SCENE-WORK is a vital part of the revising process. It is, in fact, just about the whole thing. For me, each beat of the story is what I would call a scene. Each scene must have a purpose and that purpose must be met or the scene must go. Even if you are writing a huge novel - every scene must make sense. It must further the plot, provide some reasoning for actions that occur, flash-back to some story that impacts the main one, develops a character and so on. That doesn't mean that each scene must be a riveting chase scene - even a book that is a bucolic romp must be comprised of scenes that add to that romp. This is easy to see when you are writing a poem - but it is no less important in a full-length novel. Now, my first writing was as a playwright. Every scene must be packed with story - to carry the plot in what is usually an hour and a half. And it is all action and dialogue. You probably suggest what the scenery should look like, and the costumes etc... but at the point of production you have a TEAM that weighs in on everything. And I mean everything!
One of the downfalls of doing NaNoWriMo months (where you write a short first draft of your novel) is that you will tend (if you are me) to bumpf up your numbers with stuff that doesn't belong - especially if you are a pantser (as opposed to a plotter, a pantser writes the story as they go along - by the seat of their pants). So revising means a lot of pruning. Lots of scenes that have no purpose and have to go to land fill (virtual that is).
If you are revising - once you have your structure in place - the big picture seen to - get down and dirty with each scene - each word needs to count.
Scene-work - the heart blood of the work.
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I often find myself writing by scenes, Jan. That is, I'll create a scene. Then I'll do another. It's only later that I work out how they're related, and put everything together for coherence. I think the scenes themselves are really what keeps the book's pace moving along.
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