I guess it tells you how busy I’ve been that I haven’t had a chance to update this site and the blog until now with a publication I’m entirely thrilled about. I published my dystopian SF story “Broken” at Clarkesworld. The story was a challenge to write because, from the start, the chronology, as one […]
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That’s the way residencies work. You’re surrounded for a brief time, and you’re lifted into places you didn’t expect.
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Scofield’s primary point is that each scene has a pulse, which writers can think about in all kinds of ways, but, basically, the scene has emotional dynamics that relate to the overall story. The characters have wants or needs.
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We often talk about scenes like we know what they are, but I sometimes see students mistake the following non-scenes for scenes . . .
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