So, you want to craft a scene? When done right, a scene can enhance your story and your characters. Scenes help the reader understand the complexity of your world, helping your fans feel the depth of your story.
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Let’s look at it like this. Plotting is how you get to choose the fundamental thoughts that are going to be running through your readers’ heads. These are the promises made by you, the author, that you intend to hold to convey your story properly.
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Moby Dick! The great behemoth of stories. If you’ve read this one, then you’re probably at the cool classic’s book club table. This book came to me from my father, and for a long time I was reluctant to read it for one excuse or another: it’s too long, there are whales in it, etc. etc. But when I finally got around to consuming those wonderful pages, I was enthralled--enchanted.
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This book is depicted in eight different parts, with more than a dozen characters. For those of you who find challenge in a book-length, then look no further! Anna Karenina is over a whopping 800 pages (depending on the translation) and typically contained into two volumes.
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Fairytales are among the oldest of folk stories, and many survive into the modern-day (think Disney). Most fairytales have some element of fantastical in them, dragons, dwarves, goblins, the usual entities for most folklore. They take short story form and are mostly of European origin. While initial tellings of these stories targeted adults as well as children, modern-day works are focused primarily on children and children’s literature.
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