Helen Fremont is masterful at writing scenes which makes her book, After Long Silence, read like fiction. In her prologue, she plays out a moment when her mother teaches five-year-old Fremont and eight-year-old Lara how to make a linzer torte. The smell of the jam draws her mother back to a time when her mother cooked huge pots of raspberry jam that launched into the first discussion about what happened to Fremont’s grandparents.

In this master class, we look at what Fremont does to make this scene so compelling besides the powerful content included. Learn the techniques of a master scene writer and how you can apply her techniques to your writing.