Scene 4 and progress

A better day today, I now have rough first drafts for Ch 1 Scenes 7 & 8 and feel a bit closer to having a decent first draft of Chapter 1. I have a fair bit of rewriting to do because the early scenes have changed as my mind has 'discovered' the plot. There seem to be two really difficult aspects of creativity in writing a story: the scene and the plot or structure. Up to a point you can learn how to write a scene. I found the Sydney Writers' Studio a great help in this - it is the only formal training I have had in creative writing and I reckon it to be well worth the fee.

www.writerstudio.com.au/

Ok a long way to go, I acknowledge, for any of my English friends who might happen to read this :)

The Writers' Studio has a prescription for writing scenes that I certainly believe in even if I can't always apply it well (I shall describe it another day). The plot, however, I find much harder.

The first half of Scene 4 which I posted earler is, for the moment, as good as I can get. Perhaps I lack the skill to improve on it. But anyway I enjoy writing the Ladies of the Kensington Gore Croquet club. One thing is for certain, at least for me, if I don't enjoy the process of writing I may as well give it up immediately and take up stamp collecting!