Every Scene Needs a Turn
Writers’ Group Discussions — Originally presented April 20, 2026 One of the things we’ve been exploring in our writers’ group is what makes a scene worth reading. We spend a lot of time thinking about dialogue, descriptions, characters, and...
Writers Group Discussions
A couple of months ago, I started preparing short discussions about various aspects of storytelling for my weekly writers’ group. The idea was pretty simple. Each week, we’d spend a little time exploring a particular element of writing—something that might...
The River
A good story is like a river. It starts at one location and flows to another. Along the way, it passes over obstacles and around obstructions as part of the natural course of good storytelling. But not all stories flow properly. Given the chance, plots may swirl in...About Me
Scott Boyer grew up in Santa Monica, CA and still resides in the Los Angeles area. Graduating from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley in 1996, he started writing Bobby Ether And The Academy with the goal of blending YA fantasy with spiritual fiction. Nowadays, Scott splits his time between helping his father manage an insurance brokerage, playing with his Shepherd-mix rescue dog Patch, and writing other adventures in the Bobby Ether series.
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