The Short Of It

Scenes Are The Building Blocks Of Story

On writing effective scenes

Margery Bayne
The Writing Cooperative
6 min readSep 1, 2021

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Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash

Scenes are the building blocks of stories, whether a short story, novel, or memoir. In short stories, a story can be as short as one scene and can be as many scenes as the story demands.

As building blocks — or perhaps more accurately, puzzle pieces — that make up the larger…

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