Scenes are units of conflict unified by time built around Goal, Conflict and Disaster. Scene is followed by Sequel followed by Scene followed by Sequel, in a chain, from first to last page. The essential building blocks of Swain's approach are Scenes and Sequels. More importantly for Swain is that you, a writer, understand the why behind the techniques.īefore getting into the meat of how to build a story Swain tackles word choice and arrangement, including healthy discussion of adverbs, active verbs, meaning, denotation and connotation, vividness and brevity.
Swain makes considerable effort to impress on the writer-reader that the tips, tricks and techniques discussed are simply tools - and the learning of how to deploy them is easily acquired over time. Or, rather, it works in so far as you'll likely feel sufficiently inspired and motivated to try the techniques discussed. Not sure why, but mention of this very useful how-to book - the best I've come across - seems to provoke much agonised ire among some would-be paid and published writers on Authonomy. No writer in his right mind writes by a set of rules.
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