ChasingSuns
Sage
So in my current story, I have run into a problem. It's been hard for me to tell what to do with the scenes in the first chapter. Basically, it goes like this...
Scene 1: Carriage ride, leading to a bandit ambush at the edge of a forest. A short fight ensues. Characters continue through a forest.
Scene 2: They arrive at a town in the center of the forest. They are greeted by the lord of the land.
Scene 3: Dinner with the lord.
The second chapter starts with them heading to the capitol of the kingdom.
So my problem is that I can't seem to get the dinner scene to happen. The town and the lord are not very important at this point, and even though they will be a bit more important much later, they will still play a relatively small role in the grand scheme of the story. There are things that are revealed about certain characters, but I feel like they can be revealed during the first scene. I'm super stuck.
Part of my question is, is there an average number of scenes in a chapter? I know that it can vary and depends on what the story needs, but is there a ballpark? I just can't tell if I'm trying to do too much in one chapter.
Scene 1: Carriage ride, leading to a bandit ambush at the edge of a forest. A short fight ensues. Characters continue through a forest.
Scene 2: They arrive at a town in the center of the forest. They are greeted by the lord of the land.
Scene 3: Dinner with the lord.
The second chapter starts with them heading to the capitol of the kingdom.
So my problem is that I can't seem to get the dinner scene to happen. The town and the lord are not very important at this point, and even though they will be a bit more important much later, they will still play a relatively small role in the grand scheme of the story. There are things that are revealed about certain characters, but I feel like they can be revealed during the first scene. I'm super stuck.
Part of my question is, is there an average number of scenes in a chapter? I know that it can vary and depends on what the story needs, but is there a ballpark? I just can't tell if I'm trying to do too much in one chapter.