How to Transition Between Scenes
Create a seamless flow from beginning to end
Scenes are self-contained mini-stories in your novel. Strings of related scenes make up the chapters (Though chapters can sometimes be just one scene or one word long). To create a smooth reading experience for your audience, you want to learn the art of transitioning from scene to scene.
Change is everything
In novels, something must always be happening. Characters are engaged in or responding to events that occur in their lives. As they attempt to make their lives “right,” they go in search of a challenging goal, and encounter multiple obstacles of various depths and intensity.
The journey leads to many changes in the character’s life, and these changes happen within the scene. As we enter a scene, something happens, a change occurs, and once the change concludes, the scene is complete.
Along with the physical changes that occur, which may include battles, disagreements, moving from one location to another, romantic encounters, or any situation in the plot where the reader sees physical movement, we also have emotional changes happening. The character feels one way at the beginning of the scene and differently at the end of the scene because what has happened has an emotional effect.
