scene – Confabulator Cafe

Architecture Without Thought

Jason Arnett - February 10, 2012

So it turns out that I’ve never really thought about how I construct a scene. That’s made blogging about what I do to set scenes in my stories very difficult. That doesn’t mean I don’t have thoughts that echo what my fellow Confabulators have written about here, it just means that I don’t know exactly […]

Laying out the Table

Angela Kordahl - February 9, 2012

When I stop to consider my favorite scenes and descriptive passages, I just stop. Seriously. “Setting the scene” has always been a difficulty in my writing, because I quite hate reading descriptions. I like plot and character and telling detail as much as the next reader/writer, but description-skipping is one of my best strategies for […]

The Scene-tific Method

Ted Boone - February 9, 2012

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I was a graduate student trying to earn a PhD. During my studies I discovered something very telling about my character: I am an empiricist. I discovered that I could never truly comprehend an advanced theoretical discussion without grounding it in an observable environment. Equations […]

Start the Damned Thing Already, Just Not There

Larry Jenkins - February 6, 2012

Let’s talk about The Sound of Music for a minute. Maria is, without a doubt, the most decorated sing-off opponent the Nazis have ever faced. She also had an engaged naval captain thinking naughty thoughts about somebody who belonged to a convent, so she had that going for her. (I guess.) But when it comes […]

Setting the Scene (Week of 6 February 2012)

Jason Arnett - February 5, 2012

The Cafe isn’t always well-lit and open. Sometimes it’s dark and foreboding when you’re in here, especially at closing or before we unlock the doors and get everyone in here writing. While the furniture is mostly new, some of it was scavenged or given to us, which allows the Cafe itself to have a patina […]