This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the Helping Writers Podcast.

I hope you enjoyed this week's episode,

Six Ways to Craft Spectacular Set Piece Scenes

What are Set Piece? scenes.

What are set-piece scenes?

They're the big ones.

They're the scenes that define your story, not just in terms of plot mechanics, but particularly in terms of your they'll remember even when they've forgotten everything else about your story.

As screenwriter Matt Bird put it in his book, Secrets of Story, these are the scenes with images so captivating and iconic that they're

chosen for the book covers, movie posters, and production stills.

In many instances, these scenes might be the ones that first inspired your desire to write this story.

Very likely they're the scenes you've looked forward to writing for the whole book and

indeed the scenes you've enjoyed

writing the most. But they can also be more than a little challenging to write,

particularly since your story's success hangs on its set-piece scenes.

For the most part, the rules of writing a good set-piece scene

are no different from writing any other scene in your book.

But because they almost always occur

around structurally necessary beats within the story,

they do come with extra pressure and significance.

Today, let's take a little jaunt through the possibilities for identifying and

amping up the most important moments in your story.

So first things first, how do you know which scenes should be considered set-piece scenes?

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