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How to Write a Dynamite Scene Using the Snowflake Method

Advanced Fiction Writing, Book 2

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How to Write a Dynamite Scene Using the Snowflake Method

By: Randy Ingermanson
Narrated by: James L. Rubart
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Want to write a dynamite novel?

The secret to writing a dynamite novel is to first write a dynamite scene. Because if you can write one terrific scene, you can write a hundred. And that's a novel.

This is a short book, with just one goal - to teach you the simple principles you can use right now to design a powerful scene before you write it. If you've already written your novel, you can use these same principles to make each scene better.

About the book

How to Write a Dynamite Scene Using the Snowflake Method will give you the power tools you need to write scenes that move your reader's emotions.

You'll learn:

  • The one thing your reader most desperately wants. And why.
  • How to decide which character should have the point of view.
  • The two kinds of scenes designed to give your reader a powerful emotional experience - and how to know which to use.
  • Five ways to test that your lead character's goal in each scene is perfect.
  • How to end every scene so it leaves your reader wanting more.
  • Why dilemmas are good, and how to know when they're ruining your story.
  • Four ways to know that your character's decision will drive your story forward.
  • How to know when a scene is broken - and how to fix it.
©2018 Randall Ingermanson (P)2018 Randall Ingermanson Entertainment & Performing Arts Film & TV Screenwriting Emotions Advanced Fiction Writing

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This feels like a really great essay that's been stretched into a book. The core principles are fascinating but could easily be summarised more succinctly. I couldn't understand the necessity to use three examples from published works for each topic, when one would have sufficed. There is one concession towards the end of the book that writing isn't 'painting by numbers' which seems at odds with the rest of the book's tone. The performance is terrible. You can hear where the narration was recorded at different times/rooms and I had to check that it wasn't text-to-speech software that had been used to narrate.

Overall I would probably have been better off studying Randy's website than sitting through three and a half hours of this audiobook.

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I choose to read this book, because it was a subject I wanted to learn more about, and I was attracted by the title. However, the person they chose to read the text, managed to make it sound like he was reading a phone book or a scientific journal. I kept putting the book down, as I just couldn't get past the reader's bland and almost disinterested voice... I'm sure a reader with a a vibrant voice that sounded like he or she was engaged with the task, would have encouraged me to listen to the end... I will keep trying, but maybe do it in short bursts...

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