{"id":22188,"date":"2019-09-27T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=22188"},"modified":"2019-09-30T13:16:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T20:16:29","slug":"scenes-the-puzzle-pieces-of-your-story-by-tinthia-clemant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/27\/scenes-the-puzzle-pieces-of-your-story-by-tinthia-clemant\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes: The Puzzle Pieces of Your Story by Tinthia Clemant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Scenes-The-Puzzle-Pieces-of-Your-Story-by-Tinthia-Clemant.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-22189 size-full\" title=\"Scenes: The Puzzle Pieces of Your Story by Tinthia Clemant\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Scenes-The-Puzzle-Pieces-of-Your-Story-by-Tinthia-Clemant.png\" alt=\"Scenes: The Puzzle Pieces of Your Story by Tinthia Clemant\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Scenes-The-Puzzle-Pieces-of-Your-Story-by-Tinthia-Clemant.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Scenes-The-Puzzle-Pieces-of-Your-Story-by-Tinthia-Clemant-160x160.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Let\u2019s welcome back monthly columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?s=Tinthia+Clemant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tinthia Clemant<\/a> as she shares with us: \u201cScenes: The Puzzle Pieces of Your Story.\u201d Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>I love to build puzzles. I love the challenge of sorting through a pile of mismatched shapes and colors\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026and ultimately arriving at a cohesive image.<\/p>\n<h2><b>Writing a story is very similar to building a puzzle.<br \/>\n<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-22190\" title=\"Puzzle box\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Puzzle box\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Just as the picture on a puzzle box tells us what the puzzle will look like\u2026authors start with an image in their minds of what the story will be about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is called the premise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/5.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-22191 size-full\" title=\"What if?\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/5.png\" alt=\"What if?\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/5.png 200w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/5-160x160.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>A premise is the \u201cWhat if?\u201d question.<br \/>\n<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>See if you can figure out what stories I\u2019m referring to by these three premises.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: these are books, not movies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What if a man, upon seeing an old photograph of a beautiful woman, travels back in time to meet her?<\/li>\n<li>What if a young boy discovers he\u2019s a wizard and that there\u2019s a dark force trying to kill him?<\/li>\n<li>What if an orphan boy was given a fortune by an unknown benefactor?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>No, I\u2019m not going to give you the answers, you\u2019ll have to do a little digging. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tinthiaclemant.com\/contact-tinthia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Message me<\/a> when you think you know the book titles and I\u2019ll let you know if you\u2019re correct.<\/p>\n<h2><b>Opening the Box: Story Scenes<br \/>\n<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/6.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-22192\" title=\"Puzzle pieces\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/6-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"Puzzle pieces\" width=\"200\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a>Yup, your story\u2019s scenes are like puzzle pieces, and if you\u2019re a panster like me, they\u2019re all jumbled together into a pile of chaos in your brain.<\/p>\n<p>Plotters? Well, their puzzle pieces are neatly arranged by color, shape, pattern, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Oh, to be a plotter.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And just like the pieces to our puzzle, miss one or two scenes and you\u2019ll have holes in your story.<\/p>\n<h2><b>Too many scenes equals chaos<br \/>\n<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Add too many scenes and you\u2019ll have chaos.<\/p>\n<p>I recently read a newly published women\u2019s fiction novel by a very successful author whom shall remain nameless and found that while reading I could skip entire paragraphs and keep the thread of the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Truly,<\/strong> I didn\u2019t need to know the thread count of the sheets the character was sleeping on, or that she had to stop for gas on her way to her location.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me, nothing happened at the gas station. Nothing! These scenes were used as filler to increase the book\u2019s word count.<\/p>\n<h2><b>Key Question to Ask About Each of Your Scenes<br \/>\n<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>In my next post I\u2019ll discuss the scenes that absolutely must be in your story.<\/p>\n<p>For now, I want you to go through your manuscript and ask yourself this question for each and every scene in your story:<\/p>\n<p><b>Does this scene propel the plot forward?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not sure, place that scene aside.<\/p>\n<p>If you think the story is easily told without the scene, even if the scene represents some of your best writing, remove it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/8.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-22193\" title=\"Alfred Hitchcock\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/8-300x188.gif\" alt=\"Alfred Hitchcock\" width=\"200\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><strong>Consider what Alfred Hitchcock is quoted as saying:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cut out the dull bits and you\u2019ll have a smashing story, just like our puzzle when we don\u2019t try to force the extra pieces that make their way into the box.<\/p>\n<p><i>Happy writing!<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/h2>\n<p><strong class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Tinthia_bio_pic-3.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"tc-smart-load-skip tc-smart-loaded alignleft wp-image-20629\" title=\"Author avatar, Tinthia Clemant\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Tinthia_bio_pic-3-300x300.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Tinthia_bio_pic-3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Tinthia_bio_pic-3-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Tinthia_bio_pic-3-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Tinthia_bio_pic-3-640x640.png 640w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Tinthia_bio_pic-3-160x160.png 160w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Tinthia_bio_pic-3-320x320.png 320w\" alt=\"Author avatar, Tinthia Clemant\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2BGtmgn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Summer of Annah series<\/a>, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tinthiaclemant.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tinthia Clemant<\/a> <\/strong>lives in a secluded spot on the Concord River in Massachusetts. Her companions include a black Labrador\/Coonhound named Harlee; Shadow, an elderly black cat who still rocks at catching mice that have wandered into the house; a few hundred wild Mallards; assorted turtles, songbirds, snakes; and hawks, two Great Blue herons, and an American bald eagle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2BGtmgn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2bgtmgn noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"tc-smart-load-skip tc-smart-loaded alignright wp-image-20609 size-medium\" title=\"The Seasons of Annah (2 book series) by Tinthia Clemant\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Annah-mockup-300x200.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Annah-mockup-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Annah-mockup-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Annah-mockup-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Annah-mockup-640x427.png 640w\" alt=\"The Seasons of Annah (2 book series) by Tinthia Clemant\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Besides writing, she enjoys baking, gardening, reading (of course), painting and photography, laughing, and movies (the more explosions the better). Tinthia is an ice cream <em>aficionado<\/em> and insists that Ben and Jerry are the most perfect men ever created. She inherited my father\u2019s temper and her mother\u2019s view on life: It\u2019s meant to be lived, embraced, savored, inhaled, and not given back until every last drop of wonder is claimed. If you visit Tinthia, make sure you bring a bottle of bourbon and, of course, ice cream. Her favorite flavor is Chunky Monkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing a story is very similar to building a puzzle. And scenes are the puzzle pieces. 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