Creating strong scenes is an essential skill for writers. Over the years, I’ve struggled with writing scenes but it was only when I began to study the structure of comic books and graphic novels that I saw a simple framework for structuring scenes. My first efforts were done in a graphic-novel style, but I soon figured out the approach also works well for text-based stories.
A piece I wrote on a four-stage process for creating strong scenes for both text-based and visual stories was published this week on K.M. Weiland’s Helping Writers Become Authors website. For the full text, go to www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/scene-structure-a-framework/.
You can download this example of the scene structure from an 11-page demo done in a graphic novel style.
