So, the other day I sketched out a scene for the novel I’m plotting while on the subway ride home.<\/p>\n
As I wrote on this website at the time<\/a>, I saw it as a follow-on to a previously sketched out scene.<\/p>\n Then, while walking to the post office on my lunch break today, I had a sudden realization.<\/p>\n The scene I’d sketched out? It comes before<\/i> the previously-seen scene. That<\/i> scene leads into something else entirely<\/i>.<\/p>\n I still need<\/i> the autopsy. I just need to get the body from a different source.<\/p>\n And I realized what that<\/i> source is.<\/p>\n All the implications from the autopsy still work<\/i>.<\/p>\n More importantly, a major character arc reveals itself in a much more important way.<\/p>\n And what would have been placed somewhere around chapter seven or eight now happens around chapter two or three. Much<\/i> earlier in the story, and more appropriate to doling out background information.<\/p>\n This tale is growing nicely. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, the other day I sketched out a scene for the novel I’m plotting while on the subway ride home. As I wrote on this website at the time, I saw it as a follow-on to a previously sketched out scene. Then, while walking to the post office on my lunch break today, I hadContinue reading “On Rethinking Scenes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[615,4102],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-dotfe","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}