The Scene Workbench: How to Make Every Fiction Scene Advance Plot, Reveal Character, Build Tension, and Carry Theme

A scene earns its place through what it changes. The Scene Workbench asks fiction writers to identify that change and examine the other work a scene can carry alongside it. Diego Marchetti connects purpose to desire, resistance, choice, and consequence, giving writers questions to ask when a passage contains polished prose but still feels thin or unnecessary.
The book explores combining plot movement with characterization, revealing background through action, using setting to constrain behav...