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Sunday, June 5, 2016

Write Better Fiction: Scene Word Count


Today on Write Better Fiction we’ll cover Scene Word Count. Write Better Fiction is a process to help you critique your own manuscript and give yourself feedback. This will help you improve your novel, so you’re ready to submit it to an editor.
When writing genre fiction you should know the length of the novel that is acceptable for your genre, but what about words per scene?
Do you think word count per scene is important?
I do, and here’s why.
Word count per scene is the number of words in a scene. A scene or several scenes will make up a chapter, the chapters get you to the novel. I know, obvious, right? But how can you analyze your word count to improve your novel?
Same number of words per scene: An author may choose to write scenes that are all a similar length. Let’s say 1800 to…
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