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phil
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Welcome @dylanoa4! Dylan is a writer and senior editor at Infinite Books, an author-first publishing house launching in 2025. He has agreed to do an AMA for the /books channel. Reply with your questions (please make sure to tag him so he can easily find them)
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Aalamsy
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Hello @dylanoa4 IM still confusing an curious about how to building scene, structure and scene component?.. Sometimes when im start writin that feel so messy haha
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Dylan O'Sullivan
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Well, when you first start writing it's supposed to feel messy - that's the nature of writing. When Hemingway said "the first draft of anything is shit" he wasn't lying. He wrote the last page of A Farewell to Arms 39 times. In terms of building a scene, a great and simple method is to simply close your eyes and put yourself there: your imagination will take over. In terms of structure, a nice little fact is that stories are fractal. What that means is, you can apply the structure of an entire story to the structure of a single scene: how do you open the scene, do you set up a twist in the middle, do the beginning and ending of the scene reflect or contrast with each other? The same questions you ask of the plot, you can ask of the scene.
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