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On Writing & Storytelling: Finally! A Bit of Progress with Chapter 11, Scene Four

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Alex Diaz-Granados
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The view from WriteItNow as of Monday, September 11, 2023. I won’t add Scene Four until I redo it in novelized form and save it on the master document file in Word.

Late Afternoon/Early Evening, Monday, October 2, 2023, Lithia, Florida

Photo by Suzy Hazelwood on Pexels.com

Hi, everyone!

After taking – reluctantly – the weekend off from working on Reunion: Coda, I finally managed to write some new words in Chapter 11’s fourth and final scene. It took me longer than I would have liked, and I had to resort to the use of Movie Magic Screenwriter 6.0, but I wrote 1,091 new words.

Granted, those 1,091 words are in “screenplay” format, and they’re not officially part of the master document file for the manuscript, but nonetheless they are words that will help me when I write the “real” version of Scene Four this week. (It’s a dialogue-heavy scene, so I would have used Screenwriter to write all the characters’ lines anyway, just to have an idea of how the conversation will go. It’s a two-character scene anyway, and I find that I get a better feel for the scene’s rhythms and flow if I use the screenplay format.

This is the technique I am using to write Scene Four in Chapter 11. If it worked in July, it’ll work again in October.

If I weren’t feeling a bit tired, I would keep working on the scene, but it’s almost 5:30 PM here in the Tampa Bay area, so I’m done for the day. Besides, 1,091 unofficial words are always better than 0 words.

I don’t have anything else to tell you, friends, so I’ll wrap up this post here. Until next time, stay safe, stay healthy, and I’ll catch you on the sunny side of things.