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Writing Excuses 10.25: What Makes a Scene?

Writing Excuses

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The Importance of Pacing in Schlockmursenery

"There is no page turn with Schlockmursenery. There's always just the next button," he says. "So I needed a scene that was different enough to say, we have now entered de Numal." He pulls way back and does another establishing shot of the planet. And this time, you know, the ring is gone,. And there's some narration happening. The pacing tool that tells the reader where we are in the story.

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