Crafting Professional Scenes For Your Novel

The most reliable way to write a scene is to concentrate on what the character is doing and how things are planning to progress for them in the overall story. It is helpful to record a few notes before writing the scene to help you plan out what you should include.
One of items to think about before launching into full prose is ‘what will change after this scene has been written?’ Each scene is a unit of change. Something should happen or change in the story as a result of the scene, otherwise it may as well not exist.
The next thing you should consider is whether or not the scene is crucial to the overall story. If the scene is not essential in some way it should simply be omitted from the story. Writing needs to be concise to hold the reader’s interest, so we don’t want wasted words. The scene should serve a purpose in terms of delivering information, emotional impact, or character development.
Following this, we need to decide where the scene should occur, and which characters need to appear. The more interesting and appropriate the backdrop is, the more impact it will have on the scene. And the characters who are present should only be the ones who serve a purpose in the scene. The fewer characters the better in many cases.
Next, you should incorporate a question into the scene. An intriguing question should be raised at the start of the scene which will grab the reader’s attention, and this question should not be answered until the very end of that scene. This produces pressure and suspense, and always keeps the reader turning the pages.
The last thing for your to do before writing out the scene, is to put yourself into the mind’s eye of the ‘view point’ character. Relax and close your eyes and picture you find yourself in their world. See things from their position, and immerse yourself into their surroundings. When you do this, you have a more comprehensive feel for the details in the scene.
Once all these things come into place, you have a sound structure your scene. This is what can set you apart from other authors in your field, and give you a genuine professional edge. Once you have achieved this you can confidently go full steam ahead with your writing, knowing your scenes are soundly structured.