A weak scene doesn’t mean the end of your novel.
It’s a lot easier to spot a weak scene than a boring one. Weak scenes have problems that usually stand out, either to us, or to our critiquers or beta readers. But boring scenes? They like to hunker down and stay just enough under the radar to avoid revision, because they seem like a perfectly good scene. They work, but just not as well as they should.
How to Tell if Your Scene Is Boring Your Readers
This is tricky since we can’t loom over our readers and peek into their heads to know how they feel while they’re reading (wouldn’t that be helpful?). But we can ask our critique partners and beta readers to let us know when they start to skim a scene, or when a scene isn’t grabbing their attention.
