Writers attending the annual 'Pitch Slam' were told by Hallie Ephron, author of Never Tell a Lie, a mystery novel turned into a movie titled And Baby Will Fall. The film premiered on Life Time Network last Sunday coinciding with the ongoing Writer's Digest conference.
Writers by nature are people who have a way with words and they can exploit those strengths into engaging their readers to care about what they find on the pages. Creating scenes is the most critical of all elements of good writing. So much important is the scene that writers must stop worrying about the number of chapters or words they need to have by the end of their stories."Every scene must have a reason to be in your novel or memoir - it is the scenes that once you are done writing, you can go back to and break them down and they'll give you chapters. Write dry sentences and let the scene explain itself to the reader. Manipulate the reader. Every action is in the language - pull the narrative out of the character's head by using verbs. Verbs drive the forces in a compelling narrative," said the expert.
