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Fiction: Use of Characters is Dramatic Scenes
by Joy Cagil
Successful fiction writing presents the story in successive scenes, linked like a chain. Unlike some of the scenes that may be expository or may present flavor and pizzazz, each dramatic scene should belong to a character, but not necessarily to the protagonist even if the protagonist is present in the scene.
Each scene may emphasize a character of a subplot, the antagonist, or the protagonist. That character has some conflict either inside him or his conflict is with others or some part of life. It is up to the writer to decide before he starts constructing a scene which character will drive that scene and will evoke emotion in the reader... |
