The author’s tone is encouraging and I don’t doubt the sincere desire to help individuals with their writing. Personally, however, I found the organization and examples hard to follow. I attempted to envision possible readers who might profit from what is called the “workbook format.” The target audience seems to be novice writers.

This is a good book on writing scenes, with examples and questions to ask for elements such as time, location, characters, etc. Great resource for writers to keep on hand when they are struggling with their scenes. Thank you to Netgalley, the author, and the publisher for allowing me to read and review.

Mastering scenes is a huge part of writing. Unfortunately, so many writers come up short when it comes to actually making a scene work. If that's you, this book is a must read.

Mastering Your Scenes is an instructional piece for fiction writing, and I could see this being great to use with high school and introductory writing college classes. Cox offers insight into using your time period, setting, and pacing to develop your characters, plot, and the scene beyond a typical A-Z thought process. The book is helpful for budding writers but is not an exciting read. This would be a book to keep on the shelf and refer to when you feel stuck developing your storyline.

This is another book I picked up around learning how to write. I am finding that there are millions of resources available. They all provide some different bits of information, tips, styles or references, which adds to a lot of information to pick from.

I enjoyed this book which focuses only on mastering your scenes. This is a small book at just 97 pages but is packed full of ideas, examples and information on scenes and how you could improve your scene writing. Each chapter, all of which are short, includes information on what it's about, when, why and how to use the information, along with a guide to practical application.

This is really helpful for working through some ideas and fleshing out some scenes, especially when you are very new to writing. Towards the end, several worked examples are beneficial and give you ideas on what kind of things you might be looking for in your own written scenes.

This is a great quick guide for new and perhaps older writers alike to help flesh out mastering your scenes and adding more detail.

This book breaks down scene writing into small and understandable parts. Great for any writer that wants to develop their scenes more.