Welcome to the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast. I'm K M. Wyland and I am here to take you

deep with story theory, writing techniques, and the incredible wisdom of story.

I believe story is the greatest power on this earth,

and that as writers, we carry the torch of wielding that power

with responsibility, passion, and skill.

There is no such thing as just a story.

Today, it is my honor and my purpose

to help you write your best story,

astound the world, and maybe change your life.

Hello and welcome to this week's video.

My name is K.M. Wyland and I run the writing website helping writers become

authors. And this week's question is from Grace Clay, who asks, I would like more advice

about transitions, please. please in particular transitioning out of big set pieces

The best books or at least my favorite books tend to follow up their massive

orchestral scenes with something a little more contemplative to let the

audience catch their breaths. But how you make this transition is still beyond me.

So as I was kind of thinking about what to call this video one of my working title ideas was something big just happened in my story.

Now what?

And this is a really good question because I think we all, you know, come up with these really big scene ideas they're very often the ones that inspire the story and that they're the ones we are looking forward to writing and therefore we build our stories around them and yet it can be kind of tricky to like get into them and get out of them.

So for starters one of the main things to think about is just story structure, you know,

like are you are these scenes you know properly being built into and

properly being built out of within the entire structure so they don't just feel like they're stuck in there because

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