A scene is your novel in miniature. Your novel needs a trigger event or inciting incident, pinch points, and a climax, and so do your scenes. You may already be familiar with the W Plot Method for planning entire books.
Scenes fall into two main categories: proactive and reactive. Both are essential for a believable and vivid sense of cause and effect. Let’s see how Plottr’s Reactive Scene template can help you to lay the groundwork for a solid story.
Many timeless stories swirl around three simple states: Conflict, choice, and consequence. Keeping storytelling methods simple is often the best policy, and that’s exactly what the Three Story Scene template in Plottr does. You can’t get much simpler than three
You’ve finished your draft. That’s great! Yet what if your manuscript is meandering and overstuffed with scenes that don’t go anywhere? That’s … not so great. Fortunately, Plottr has a Scene Essentials Template to help you discern whether scenes have
All novels consist of scenes, sometimes referred to as “units of drama.” But did you know there are different types of scenes? These include opening and closing scenes, dialogue and flashback scenes, and action scenes, among others. Each serves as
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