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Effective Scenes Start in the Middle

Effective Scenes Start in the Middle

Lee Schneider
Apr 07, 2019
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Effective scenes start in the middle. Get your audience guessing, trying to keep up. This sounds to me like I am rehearsing. He is looking at me. Waiting at the table. He wears expensive glasses that look new.

“What is it you wanted to talk to me about?” His unmoving gaze catches me off guard.

I blurt something about getting out of his interiority.

“My …

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