#6: 3 Reasons You Should Write in Scenes vs. Chapters

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🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In today's episode, I'm going to give you three reasons why you should write your draft in scenes instead of chapters. Here's a preview of what we'll cover: [01:20] The difference between scenes and chapters and how they each play a different role in your story's pacing. [02:45] 3 reasons why you should write in scenes instead of chapters: [02:55] Reason #1: It's easier to plan out your first draft because you can break down your total target word count into a target number of scenes that's ...

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0:00.0	Hey there, Savannah here. Before we get into today's episode, I wanted to share our next book
0:05.0	pick with you because I'm super excited to dig into this book and see how and why it works.
0:10.0	Our next meeting is coming up on November 16th at 4 p.m. Pacific, 7 p.m. Eastern, and we're going to be
0:16.0	digging into the fourth wing by Rebecca Yarrows.
0:19.1	Abigail and I are so excited to deconstruct this book and these meetings are always so much fun.
0:24.1	They're interactive so in addition to our presentation on why we think this story works
0:28.8	and why we think it resonates with readers, there are also polls and lots of opportunities to chat with other
0:34.4	writers and ask us questions and you know just participate in a group discussion
0:38.8	about a really awesome book. As always our aim is to analyze a novel and translate our learnings into
0:44.8	actionable tips, tools, and strategies that you can take and implement in your own
0:48.8	writing right away. So if you want to join us or if you want to learn more about how the book club works, go to
0:54.4	Savannah Gilboe.com forward slash book.
0:57.7	One more time, that's Savannah Gilboe.com forward slash book
1:01.1	dash club. Hope to see you there. I've met a lot of writers who worry
1:05.0	about starting chapters the quote unquote right way or ending chapters on
1:09.4	cliffhangers and they just agonize and stress over this during their first draft so much that they never make progress or they never get to the end of their first draft.
1:19.0	And if they do finish a draft, the scenes that they have in their story are usually incomplete because they've
1:25.4	been so focused on writing really good chapter beginnings or really good chapter endings, but
1:30.9	they don't actually have that scene structure in place so their story just isn't working.
1:36.4	Welcome to the Fiction Writing Made Easy Podcast. My name is Savannah Gilboo and I'm here to help you write a story that works. I want to prove to you that
1:44.6	writing a novel doesn't have to be overwhelming. So each week I'll bring you a brand
1:48.8	new episode with simple, actionable, and step-by-step strategies that you can implement in your writing right away.
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