DiscoverEssential Guide to Writing a NovelEpisode 181 - A critical difference between scene and summary.
Episode 181 - A critical difference between scene and summary.

Episode 181 - A critical difference between scene and summary.

Update: 2025-09-05
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Why should almost all of our story be scenes rather than summaries?  Here's how we can avoid summaries and instead write moment-by-moment real-time scenes in our fiction.  Also: here are perhaps the most beautiful sentences ever written in fiction.

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Episode 181 - A critical difference between scene and summary.

Episode 181 - A critical difference between scene and summary.

James Thayer