I read many, many books, and many of them have stuck with me for years after I’ve finished them. One in particular I remember; it was a steamy romance with a bit of an amnesia trope that roped me in. But why I remember it is because when I got to the end, it was all in her mind. She was in a psyche ward and the entire book was made up. She didn’t get her HEA. And if it wasn’t on my phone, I would have thrown that book into the wall.

What is a Scene?

It sounds like a simple question. But if you hand a book over to two editors, they will probably define the scenes of the book in very different ways. Even I have arguments with myself, both sides winning, of where a scene starts and ends. That is because a well structured book is constructed with building blocks of action and reaction, from the smallest kernel of bickering dialogue to the large scale relationship between the story’s inciting incident and climax.

And the most digestible of these blocks are scenes.