The Last Whale: Book to be Launched at Sprung Writers Festival
The book is a pure narrative following people through 12 months of the 1970s. It gets inside the heads of Australia's last whalers and the activisits who risk their lives trying to stop them.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Scenes - Building Blocks of Story
Scenes are the building blocks of story.
Each brick looks at the world from one point of view. Link these bricks together and you have a story, hopefully something compelling.
Jack M. Bickham in Scene and Structure, Writer's Digest Books (April 1999) , talks about the scene and sequel structure.
In creative nonfiction this is better described as scene and summary: action followed by a bit of summary followed by more action.
In fiction, each scene needs a point of view and a goal for that point of view character. Something happens, usually a setback followed by further disaster.
In creative nonfiction, the action cannot be invented but you can look through someone's eyes in the now and follow them as they face a problem.
This is a worthwhile read: Six Tips for Crafting Scenes Laurie Hertzel says "Scenes are the backbone of narrative. They're where the action of your story takes place, where the plot unfolds. "
- chris pash -
Each brick looks at the world from one point of view. Link these bricks together and you have a story, hopefully something compelling.
Jack M. Bickham in Scene and Structure, Writer's Digest Books (April 1999) , talks about the scene and sequel structure.
In creative nonfiction this is better described as scene and summary: action followed by a bit of summary followed by more action.
In fiction, each scene needs a point of view and a goal for that point of view character. Something happens, usually a setback followed by further disaster.
In creative nonfiction, the action cannot be invented but you can look through someone's eyes in the now and follow them as they face a problem.
This is a worthwhile read: Six Tips for Crafting Scenes Laurie Hertzel says "Scenes are the backbone of narrative. They're where the action of your story takes place, where the plot unfolds. "
- chris pash -
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