Writing: Outlining a Scene

Really helpful for visualisation of a scene and generally a great piece of advice to keep in mind!

J. Young-Ju Harris

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Have you ever sat down to write a scene and just ended up staring at your computer screen for an hour? You’ve outlined your novel, you have a couple notes on what supposed to be happening, but for some reason you can’t truly visualize it. Sure you know that your heroes defeat one of the villain’s henchmen and learn something from him, but you’re unsure about how the scene breaks down. What does the action look like? What sort of witty banter is thrown around between the different characters?

If you’re like me, then you know this feeling all too well. A lot of my novel outlines, when I outline, don’t have extremely in-depth descriptions of each individual scene. I know the purpose the scene serves, and there are couple of things I know I want to touch on in the given chapter, but sometimes when it comes to…

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