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If Your Scene Feels Flat, It Might Need More Heat (opens the original)
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At an Acorn Publishing writing workshop I taught at Asilomar recently, I spent ninety minutes talking about something I call narrative heat. It’s not a euphemism for sex scenes. Though sex scenes can certainly have narrative heat. They can also have absolutely none, which is a topic for another day.The information here applies to fiction and memoir. The main difference is that, in memoir, writers aren’t manufacturing scenes. They are recreating memories based on the essence of truth. The goal is
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