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Craft your fiction with scene-by-scene flow, logic and readability.
An imprisoned man receives an unexpected caller, after which "everything changed..."
And the reader is hooked. But whether or not readers will stay on for the entire wild ride will depend on how well the writer... read more

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MENTION WORDS SUCH AS STRUCTURE, form, or plot to some fiction writers, and they blanch.

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1. The Structure of Modern Fiction
2. Strategy: How to Start Your Story and How to End It
3. Structure in Microcosm: Cause and Effect
4. Structure in Larger Elements: The Scene
5. Structure in Macrocosm: Scenes with Results
6. Planning and Revising Scenes for Maximum Effect
7. Linking Your Scenes: The Structure of Sequel
8. Scene-Sequel Tricks to Control Pace
9. Variations in the Internal Structure of Scene and Sequel
10. Common Errors in Scenes and How to Fix Them
11. Plotting with Scene and Sequel
12. Specialized Scene Techniques
13. The Structure of Chapters
14. The Scenic Master Plot and How to Write One

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This book is in Elements of Fiction Writing. (publisher series)

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  1. Jack M. Bickham (Author)

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