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    Make a Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time

    By Jordan Rosenfeld

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    Write Scenes that Move Your Story Forward

    In Make a Scene, author Jordan E. Rosenfeld takes you through the fundamentals of strong scene construction and explains how other essential fiction-writing techniques, such as character, plot, and dramatic tension, must function within the framework of individual scenes in order to provide substance and structure to the overall story. You'll learn how to:

    • Craft an opening scene that hooks readers and foreshadows supporting scenes
    • Develop various scene types - from the suspenseful to the dramatic to the contemplative - that are distinct and layered
    • Tailor character and plot around specific scene types to better convey the nuances of your storyline
    • Create resonating climactic and final scenes that stay with readers long after they've finished your work
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWriter's Digest Books
    Release dateNov 9, 2007
    ISBN9781582976891
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    Make a Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time
    Author

    Jordan Rosenfeld

    Jordan is an author, writing coach, editor and freelance journalist. She earned her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and is the author of the books, Make A Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time (Writer’s Digest Books) and Write Free! Attracting the Creative Life with Rebecca Lawton (BeijaFlor Books). Jordan’s essays and articles have appeared in such publications as AlterNet.org, Publisher’s Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle, The St. Petersburg Times, The Writer and Writer’s Digest magazine. Her book commentaries have appeared on The California Report, a news-magazine produced by NPR-affiliate KQED radio. She's working on two more books from Writer's Digest Books, coming in 2015: A Writer's Guide to Persistence: A Toolkit to Build & Bolster a Lasting Writing Practice and, with Martha Alderson, Deep Scenes: Plotting Your Story Scene-by-Scene Through Action, Emotion and Theme.

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    • 5/5
      A wonderful book that helps in crafting your scenes, from the very beginning of your book to the end. It has very detailed help and shows not only how story arch works in the scene itself, but across your book as a whole. Rosenfeld uses great imagery and step-by-step demonstrations to help writers of all levels.
    • 5/5
      This is one of the more useful Writer's Digest sponsored books on the topic of scene-writing. While far longer than many of the scene-writing books being published today, it does not waste words, but leads you brick by brick through the process of first baking bricks, and then how to stack them to create a complete, fulfilling story. Each topic is explained concisely, examples are given, and then the topics learned in each chapter are summarized at the end. I've already got a few sections dog-eared for future reference and anticipate I'll refer back to it often.My only complaint is the examples skewed towards more 'literary' fiction, much of which I have never read. It did not detract at all from my understanding of the lesson, but I noticed I enjoyed more the examples which had been drawn from books with which I was familiar as with those examples I had a more complete picture.
    • 5/5
      This book gives an excellent breakdown of several kinds of scenes and how to construct them. The author quotes works I know as examples, which was helpful. Rosenfeld writes clearly, with intelligence and charm, a useful talent when dealing with a subject that can be dry. My last writing book on scenes put me to sleep repeatedly, but not this one.An excellent book for beginning writers, Make a Scene can also benefit a veteran who needs to take her writing from intuition into conscious choice in order to improve.
    • 5/5
      Very good job of covering the intricacies of developing scenes in fiction writing.
    • 4/5
      Writing scenes that move your story forward is given in many examples. Different scene structures listed with their components, is a valuable reference tool for completion of a novel. Individually scenes may be intense or mild, contemplative or dramatic, but when they are used in combination, they form a fantastic narrative that feels rich and complex. Entertain and inform the reader through clear and powerful scenes. This book should help build a vivid scene, and link each of your scenes to create a compelling narrative that will engage the reader. When researching for my novels, this book can help keep structure in my research, and reference as needed throughout my writing. I own a copy of this book and appreciate the expertise in its writing.
    • 4/5
      One of the most helpful writing books I read in a long time.