Scene: Launch Your Scene with Action

Question: Can you please talk about how to launch a scene.

Answer: To launch a scene that will pull your readers in you need some sort of action. It doesn’t have to be a chase scene or BIG action. It can be as simple as a vase falling over and breaking into pieces. That vase might be a gift from a husband who has just died, the last gift given of maybe an intruder has walked into the room and knocked it over. We are immediately drawn into why the vase broke, who broke it and what is going to happen next. We’re drawn into the scene to find out what happens next.

You can launch a scene in dialogue as well. But you want to use dialogue that involves. For example, “What are you doing going through my drawers?”
We are immediately in the scene and involved in the conflict that the action of going through someone’s drawers without permission would create.

It’s about telling our stories. Like all great storytellers we have to pull our readers with us by launching our scenes in a way that gets them involved right away.