How to Know If a Scene Deserves to Exist
Have you ever written a scene that feels… fine? The dialogue flows, the setting’s vivid, maybe you even nailed a killer line or two. But something’s off. It doesn’t move anything. Doesn’t reveal, haunt, or ripple forward. It just kind of… exists. Sits there like a placeholder that never got replaced. This blog is for that scene.
The Emotional Weather System of a Scene
When we talk about a scene, we talk a lot about what happens in a scene. But today, I want to focus on what moves through it.