The prep work that will help immerse your reader in any scene

Author Sharon Oard Warner began her series on scenes by covering the "building blocks" — as in, the specific features of all strong scenes.

Her next installment is simply on specifics: that is, why scenes need specific details.

Warner suggests a number of grounding details to establish for yourself, before writing the scenes, to accomplish this goal.

Her discussion of scene prep (and building a scene sequence) is up at Jane Friedman's blog.

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