NaNoWriMo Tip #20: Scene Helper

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You know the drill. Take only what works. This is a new and streamlined post about Scene Helper, revised from an earlier post.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i><span style="color: #660066; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> </span></i> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is a scene? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A scene is the usual unit of writing for me. I sit down, begin a scene and keep writing until I finish it. If I am interrupted before I finish the scene, say by the requirement to cook dinner for a hungry hoard of munchkins, those munchkins better like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. 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