Anatomy of a scene
I was browsing a popular social media site and someone asked about scene-planning. My answer got verbose, so I decided to make it a blog entry and link it for my reply. I come from a theatre background, so, as a Dominant, I think of myself as the director and a session, is like a play. I tend to plan sessions out broken into "Acts" each act is mentally outlined with a general idea of what I want to accomplish in that act before moving to the next. This helps with pacing so that each act builds on the last so that the finale is the end result of everything that came before. How Long? A good scene does not always have to be a long scene, but it helps. What kind of time do you have to work with where you will not be interrupted or walked in on? Do you have the place to yourselves, or is noise going to be an issue? What is owed. When I begin planning for a session, I start by looking at what is owed. As part of o...