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Scenes: The Building Blocks of Narrative.

Updated: Jan 15, 2023

A scene is the basic building block of narrative writing. When you write a narrative, you are in fact writing two or three scene that are put together in a way that makes sense.


Every scene has three basic parts:

➢ Orientation

➢ Complication

➢ Resolution

Like this:



Note: There is no connection between a scene and paragraphing. A scene can

have any number of paragraphs-but always more than one.

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