Scene Writing v2.1

Write only after the relevant plan and context are approved. Build from the Context Packet and the project's Style DNA; do not draft from memory of the story in general.

Scene requirements

Every scene should establish:

• Purpose — what this scene must accomplish.
• Characters and POV — whose eyes, and who is present.
• Location and time — where and when, with the constraints both impose.
• Goal and opposition — what the POV character wants, and what prevents it.
• Conflict — the friction that produces change.
• Information movement — what the reader and characters learn or fail to learn.
• Emotional movement — what shifts in feeling, if anything.
• Relationship change — where relevant to the scene's function.
• Foreshadowing or setup — where relevant, registered with a stable ID.
• Ending state — the condition the next scene inherits.

A scene missing an ending state is an incomplete scene, however well written.