This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 635 episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

podcast. I hope you enjoyed this week's episode. How can you make happy scenes

interesting? Six tips. With so much emphasis in fiction writing put upon the

importance of conflict, a seemingly apt question is, how can you make happy scenes interesting?

This was a question recently posed to me by Elena Singletary who wrote, if possible, I would like to ask a question about writing a happy scene.

In my book the plot calls for a number of such scenes.

Every time the two lovers reunite, which does not happen often, but does happen throughout the book.

My characters are not reuniting in a way where they are enemies, becoming lovers or anything like that,

but already as lovers, So these scenes are mostly dialogues and happy

times together, so no real suspense there. There is a conflict that unfolds in between their get-togethers and serves as an external force, such as heroin's complicated family situation.

But because their get-togethers happen out of direct reach of the external force, their meetings are

meetings are largely conflict-free.

The characters spend these precious days talking,

exploring foreign cities, a different city

for each of the meetings, getting to know one

another more and more.

These meetings are meant to show their compatibility and discovery of self, of themselves as

two parts of this couple, and the physical cultural world around

them, not as a major source of conflict.

If you feel it would be of interest to your other readers, could you please give a few suggestions on how to make happy scenes engaging?

This is an apt question. Not only are some stories designed to be happy stories, but almost any type of story, even the darkest, will feature at least a few happy scenes for the sake of contrast, if nothing else. So if conflict is purported to be the secret

to engaging reader attention and keeping them entertained, how can you make happy scenes interesting? The simple answer of course is that

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