What Screws Up a Scene

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Dwight Swain, who features on our podcast this week, has a great book called Techniques of the Selling Writer and in one of the chapters, buried in between his definitions of scene and sequel, he talks about what makes a scene fail.

That’s pretty important, sweet stuff to know if you’re a writer.

So here you go. . .

1. The reader doesn’t know what the hel…