Lesson 24

[Jeanne Sanner]

Jeanne Sanner – Missing Scenes

First, though I have not kept up with the posting, I have kept up with the assignments. I have completed my first draft, and I am thrilled! (Not necessarily with my quality, but with the fact I finished all of the assignments and have a workable draft.

Second, what I learned from adding missing scenes. At first, I didn’t see any missing scenes (probably because they were there. lol) Then I realized where I could flesh out one character, Matt, and give closure to Andrea and Justin. so I wrote those two scenes, and I added to two other scenes to create the insights I wanted to reveal.

I’ve also realized that I do not have many action scenes, and that the concepts I’m working with are difficult to actually show. I think that’s the area that needs the most work.

[Laurie Reilly]

Laurie-Fill in the Blanks. For this assignment I first fixed all the slug lines for consistency, then gave it a read. I had several placeholders that I worked on, but I left three still to do as they were going to stop the flow. I didn’t write any complete new scenes, but added to several and cut a bit of unnecessary dialogue that stuck out. Solid 101 pages.- only 3 placeholders, all minor, left.

[Margaret]

Margaret’s Filled in Missing Scenes

What I learned doing this assignment: I rushed the scenes in some cases, so the next scene came up too fast.

I added two beginning scenes, realized I had not shown enough of the protagonist’s old life.

I added two scenes before his major change at midpoint, the change came too quickly, we needed to see the reason he adopted the change.