Comments on: Question: Tent Pole Follow-up http://denniscass.com/2009/09/21/question-tent-pole-follow-up/ Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:07:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: JES http://denniscass.com/2009/09/21/question-tent-pole-follow-up/#comment-1341 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:32:16 +0000 http://denniscass.com/?p=1605#comment-1341 P.S. And I like what bets added, too. I’m leery of “Thou shalt/shalt not” absolutes!

]]> By: JES http://denniscass.com/2009/09/21/question-tent-pole-follow-up/#comment-1340 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:28:58 +0000 http://denniscass.com/?p=1605#comment-1340 This is great advice. Thanks!

After your August hiatus you said you hoped to focus more on craft, less on marketing. Fwiw, that sounded great to me; this post is a perfect example.

]]> By: bets http://denniscass.com/2009/09/21/question-tent-pole-follow-up/#comment-1339 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:17:59 +0000 http://denniscass.com/?p=1605#comment-1339 Thanks for the bit about not every scene being a tent-pole scene. I don’t think of it this way, because I tend to write major scenes that “pivot” plot and character, but I have a scene in my book where the MC is talking to his little brother because their adoptive father has died. The crit group unilaterally loved the scene but I also got several comments along the line of “what’s the revelation in it?”

It’s actually a bridge scene. It’s meant to be that. It shows world and character and the MC becomes a bit more determined about what he must do. But there are no reversals in it. And I know, for the pacing of the book, that’s all right.

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