Scene Magic: A scene-writing exercise in 20 questions
I developed it over many years as a creative writing professor and finally remembered to use it myself. And it works! Here it is!
Let me know if you use Scene Magic and how it works for you!
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Update, everybody: I changed the post title! My original one was long and kept getting cut off!
I love this flow of questions and how you break down the reasons for them in the section below that. I'm trying it out for a chapter in my memoir that was very significant -- getting my elderly mom and dad to Union Station in Los Angeles to board a train to New Mexico. It was the day they left their home of almost 60 years in Southern California for the final time, to move to Santa Fe to be near to me. Quite a thing to do in your early 90s... I can still see the courage it took for them to make that move. The questions helped to bring out the vividness of that moment.