http://writeabetternovel.net/use-half-scenes-to-enrich-your-narrative-summaries/ Practical wisdom for novelists and other storytellers Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:32:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://writeabetternovel.net/use-half-scenes-to-enrich-your-narrative-summaries/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Elizabeth Mallard Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:34:23 +0000 http://truevoice-blog.com/?p=46#comment-34 <p>This is good stuff and important in creative non-fiction too. A good lead, formerly called "lede," is often a half-scene, a real time vignette designed to grab and reel in the reader. Fact and other material in the piece will follow but the reader would throw the piece down if the non-fiction writer started with the dry information.</p> This is good stuff and important in creative non-fiction too. A good lead, formerly called “lede,” is often a half-scene, a real time vignette designed to grab and reel in the reader. Fact and other material in the piece will follow but the reader would throw the piece down if the non-fiction writer started with the dry information.

]]> http://writeabetternovel.net/use-half-scenes-to-enrich-your-narrative-summaries/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Patrick Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:16:46 +0000 http://truevoice-blog.com/?p=46#comment-35 <p>Great tip. Half-Scenes refresh the reader AND the writer! </p> Great tip. Half-Scenes refresh the reader AND the writer!

]]> http://writeabetternovel.net/use-half-scenes-to-enrich-your-narrative-summaries/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Lisa Kenney Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:57:34 +0000 http://truevoice-blog.com/?p=46#comment-36 <p>I like having a name for these scenes that aren't quite scenes and aren't quite narrative summary.</p> I like having a name for these scenes that aren’t quite scenes and aren’t quite narrative summary.

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