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How do you write a dramatice scene
I need to write a scene for a book and i don't know how to write a dramatic confentation, while keeping all of the characters there. How do i write a big scene like that without having the feeling of 'one of the characters would just walk off' type of feeling?
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Have you ever been in a fight before? Or watched a fight? Or gotten into a screaming match with a parent or sibling?
Although our rational brains (which often interupt when we try to write) tell us that walking away is the smart move, most people in a fight actually don't walk away all the quickly.
Espcailly not when there is more then one person involved. People might want to walk away, but stay to defend or sympathize or interfere with another person.
When you sit down to write a fight, don't just think about 'anger' because it's true, people will walk away from anger reasonably quickly. Think about the other feelings your characters might have during the fight: scorn, humor, pity, sorrow, sympathy. That will help you find the motivation for why they stay.
Each time a character gets close to leaving, there are ways, just like people do in real fights, of uping the ante and keeping it going: Things like making a joke, making a nasty remark about someone else, saying some truly mean or shocking, starting to cry or becomming physical...
All of those 'ploys' though to keep the fight going, stem first from what your characters are feeling: and it's probably a lot more then just anger.
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