How do writers know which scenes to include and which ones to summarize?
Jody Hedlund, best-selling author of over a dozen YA medieval novels, offers a few great tips on writing scenes. She says:
“Obviously we can’t write every scene that takes place over the time period of our books which usually spans weeks or months. We have to narrow down how much of our story and character’s lives we reveal on the page. That means we often have to summarize events or leave them out entirely with the assumption that our readers will piece everything together without having to know every detail.
While I don’t believe there’s a hard, fast rule or formula for which scenes to write out in detail and which ones to summarize, I think there are a few principles we can keep in mind when choosing scenes to include in our books…
Source: jodyhedlund.blogspot.com
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