What is a scene? a) A scene starts and ends in one place at one time (the Aristotelian … - Janet Fitch

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Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it.

Janet Fitch

What is a scene? a) A scene starts and ends in one place at one time (the Aristotelian unities of time and place-this stuff goes waaaayyyy back). b) A scene starts in one place emotionally and ends in another place emotionally. Starts angry, ends embarrassed. Starts lovestruck, ends disgusted. c) Something happens in a scene, whereby the character cannot go back to the way things were before. Make sure to finish a scene before you go on to the next. Make something happen.

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