The Structure of a Scene

For me, the structure of a scene serves two purposes. One is that it is a way of controlling pacing. Longer scenes are going to be like a very long and again, I'm using cinematic terminology for this scene. It gives you more depth, but it also feels, can feel slower. Sometimes it can have a sense of urgency depending on what's going on in it. See, I don't do a lot of start where we introduce a character doing something. We raise questions. They struggle with those questions or conflict, whatever it is. Then something changes and we're done. That is a scene for me.Sometimes that's an entire chapter. More frequently, there will