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A collection of sentences does not necessarily tell a story – academic papers, product descriptions, and legal disclaimers are collections of sentences, but they are not stories. Only scenes contain the smallest basic element of the whole story.

Scene is the atom in Story’s Periodic Table. Yet many writers struggle to identify what scenes are or how they fit into a story well-told. A strong scene immerses the reader in some aspect of the character’s experience–in a specific moment in time with one setting and one or more characters interacting in some way. And it sets up the cause-and-effect trajectory that drives the pace and emotional tension of the larger story.

In Understanding Scene, Book Coach Julie Artz will help you:

• Define what a scene is and how it works in fiction.
• Understand the six parts of scene.
• Use scene goals to create a cause-and-effect trajectory in your story.
• Avoid common scene-level mistakes.
• Heighten emotion at the scene level.

A combination of lecture, examples, and exercises using participants’ own work, this informative 5 lesson course will help you improve your story’s foundation by starting with the essential foundation: strong, engaging scenes.