I believe Brad answered this question in a Cohort meeting, but I wasn’t taking notes, so I forgot. How long to scenes have to be? Is it bad if one of my scenes is not even 800 words long. The exact number of words in scene 3 of my book is 779, is that a problem. It will probably grow to 800 when I go back and add more description, but still that’s pretty small compared to my first scene of 1750 words., and second scene which is 2102 words.
Or maybe my 1st and 2nd scenes are too long? I don’t know!
I was hugely grateful that Brad answered that question in the meeting. I am all over the place in scene lengths because I had no boundaries or rules when I wrote them. He also commented that the best writers have a purpose to each sentence. That was a pretty convicting statement. Love that he said tell the best story.
