{"id":7864,"date":"2020-04-03T15:25:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedisciplemaker.org\/?p=7864"},"modified":"2020-04-03T15:25:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:25:51","slug":"writing-your-story-its-okay-to-make-a-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2020\/04\/writing-your-story-its-okay-to-make-a-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Your Story: It&#8217;s Okay to Make a Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<p>Sometimes it\u2019s hard to write about something we know well.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>We all have pieces of our lives that are so familiar to us, we don\u2019t even know what we know.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>And then we assume our readers know what we don\u2019t know we know. <strong>We skip some of the pieces they need to see, hear, taste, touch to be there with us. <\/strong>And our knowledge and experience is not always verbal. It may be a body knowledge. It might be a vocabulary of muscle and tendons. So it was for me. I had to stop, engage my body in the composition of those pages.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul><li>How did I stand in the skiff?<\/li><li>How did I first step into those hip-high rubber boots?<\/li><li>How did I lean over to catch the net?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h2>1. Get Closer to the Action<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>I started writing scenes of my first time actually working with my husband in the skiff. I was writing fifteen years later from that first day, but I had journals, and those early memories were sharp. I remembered the process of getting dressed, with layer upon layer of sweat shirts, hip boots, rain pants, finally layered so thick and heavy, I could hardly walk. Kind of a backwards Pygmalion story, the real person submerged under inches of fishing gear.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/skiff.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7868\" width=\"600\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Then I thought of my first snack and bathroom break on the water, on an eighteen-foot open boat. There\u2019s no latrine, of course, on a boat that size. We worked all morning until it was nearly lunchtime. Duncan and his father, DeWitt, brought out the snacks from under the seat\u2014candy bars and pop. For their bathroom break in the skiff, they asked me to turn around. For mine, I was dropped off on a rocky ledge. But it wasn\u2019t quite that simple.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>But you don\u2019t care about any of that, right? I don\u2019t either. I just gave you information. I told you what you needed to know, but you weren\u2019t with me. I just gave you words about a time and a place far from wherever you live.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>So let me try again,<strong> this time as a scene<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><em data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">It\u2019s almost noon now. We\u2019ve been fishing for four hours. I sit wearily on the wooden seat, looking at the fish on the floor of the skiff. There must be five hundred of them, all fat and shiny. The waves slap and slosh our skiff from side to side. I\u2019m hungry. And I need a bathroom break, but how does this happen in an eighteen-foot boat? There is no cabin on our little wooden peapod. It\u2019s just a glorified rowboat afloat on a great Alaska sea. <\/em><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><em>DeWitt sits heavily in the bow, his black-green raincoat mirroring the dark water below. \u201cWell, I guess I\u2019ve gotta shake the dew off my lily,\u201d DeWitt intones in a gravelly voice. I can hear his Oklahoma accent, though he left forty years before, during the dust bowl. He grew up poor, picking cotton and working the land. Now he works the seas, but he moves awkwardly in the boats and never seems at home on moving water. Except now. <\/em><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><em>I smile at Duncan and DeWitt and turn around. When they\u2019re done, it\u2019s my turn.<\/em><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><em>\u201cLet me off on that rock over there, Duncan.\u201d I point to a cove with a shelf of rock jutting out. In a moment we are there, the skiff rising and plunging in the waters swirling around the rocks. I\u2019m nervously perched in the bow, ready to spring overboard at just the right second. My hands twitch as they grip the rail. I\u2019m motionless but breathing hard.<\/em><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><em>\u201cJump!\u201d Duncan yells as the nose of the skiff rises in the foaming surge. <\/em><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><em>\u201cYou\u2019re not close enough!\u201d I shoot behind me. I see DeWitt sitting calmly beside Duncan as if we\u2019ve done this a hundred times. <\/em><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><em>\u201cI can\u2019t get any closer! Jump!\u201d he shouts as the boat gurgles and sinks now in the trough. <\/em><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><em>I can\u2019t leap that distance in all this fishing gear. And if I miss? How did a simple bathroom break become a life-and-death endeavor?<\/em><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/9015864643710\/WN_PSY6VMR1TiC05aoncp6Z8g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/TDMBannerAd_WHYYourStoryMatters.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7964\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>Do you feel closer to the action?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>I hope you feel as though you\u2019re perched right there beside me in the skiff, waiting to vault overboard.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2>2. What about dialogue?<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a question that always comes up in scene-making. How can we remember exactly what people said, especially if the story happened fifty years ago? Often, we can\u2019t. (Unless it\u2019s your father-in-law, who used memorable language and the same phrases again and again.) You may not remember precisely what your sister said before she ran away, or the exact words between you and your mother when you returned to your house after the fire. We may not be able to reconstruct the exact words, but memories lodge for a reason. We often remember the tone, the sense, and the import of those words. That\u2019s all we have, any of us, unless we happened to pull out a tape recorder or a video camera during the fight, after the fire, during any of those times when the hardest, the best, and the most banal words passed between us and another. <strong>Render dialogue as closely and as fairly as you can. It will be enough.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>But if your memories of a particular exchange are thin and uncertain, there\u2019s another solution: Don\u2019t use dialogue. There are many other ways to convey the scene: \u201cI don\u2019t remember my grandmother\u2019s voice or even her words that night, but after supper, when everyone left the table, she talked to me about going to college. She believed in me more than anyone else in my family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<h2>3. Scene and Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Writers have been rendering scene and summary for a long time. More than half of the gospels in the Bible are scenes. <strong>Much of the Old Testament is made of scenes.<\/strong> How did those ancient authors (who didn\u2019t read a book on writing) know this, that we needed not some dusty account of who did what, when, where, and how, but full immersion, full attachment to those events, no matter how distant?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeslieSalmon-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7879\" width=\"600\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>As I remembered and wrote about my first day in fishing, as I wrestled verbs and adjectives to capture the sound of the water against the wooden skiff, the feel of the salmon between my fingers, the plunge of the skiff by the rock, <strong>I remembered more<\/strong>. I remembered something about my father-in-law, which has since become one of my favorite recollections of him.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><em data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">We\u2019ve missed lunch. We\u2019ve declared a snack break, retrieving the candy bars from under the wooden seat of the skiff. Dewitt sits now, his head down, his hat askew on his head, munching his Snickers. I\u2019m eating the same, both of us rocking in the slap of the waves against the skiff. He appears to be studying the salmon, lying askew at our feet. Then he looks up at me and says, straight into my eyes, \u201cThose are beautiful fish, aren\u2019t they?\u201d I nod in surprise. He leans over, grunting, and picks one up with both gloved hands, holding the silver body out lengthwise in front of him. With the wonder of a boy, he shakes his head: \u201cBeautiful fish.\u201d<\/em><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><em>I look at him, trying to hide my amazement. DeWitt has seen and smelled and handled these fish for twenty years. He came to fishing in his forties and now he\u2019s in his sixties, when most people are beginning to fade. When most people begin to grow old. How is it that after twenty years of seeing and smelling and handling these creatures, he can still see them? Why hadn\u2019t they turned into faceless objects, or pieces of money? I hoped then that in twenty years, I could do the same<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>I want the same for you.<\/strong> It might be the wind in your ears as your family drove to your camp, how cold the river was when you fell in, the sound of your mother laughing, what your brother said, and how you burned the trout at dinner and your father ate it all before launching you, hollering, into the river one last time. Live it again. Write it. Take your readers with you into this world of glorious bodies. <strong>It\u2019s okay to make a scene and tell them a real Story.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author\"><figure class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__avatar\"><img class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__avatar-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/FIELDS-Author-Photo-bordered.png\" alt=\"Leslie Leyland Fields\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__content\"><span class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__name\">Leslie Leyland Fields<\/span><p class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__biography\">You can follow <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/tag\/leslie-leyland-fields\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leslie Leyland Fields<\/a> <\/strong>on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/leslieleylandfields\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a>, on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leslieleylandfields.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>her blog<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0 on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leslielfields\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, or on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/leslieleylandfields7810\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/a>. 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