There are a lot of new scenes in this draft of Family Trust and something I'm learning to do with each scene is to find out what the point of the scene is. I have my Sentence Lite telling me the POV character's motivation, the setting, conflict and the twist but I need to know what I'm writing to. This is what I've lacked when a scene gets waffly and things just seem to happen because... I felt that happening with the scene I began today.

Every scene should have a point, should build up to that point and then shift on from it. Without that point a scene loses momentum and falls flat. The point will progress the plot or develop character and it may do both. Other things can happen in the scene, other conflicts, other twists, other things to progress plot and develop character but there will be one that stands out for that scene, one that is driving the scene.


Number of revision hours completed: 2 hours.