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Description edit
This book is about identifying the choices available when creating, fixing, steering, and discovering plots and then learning what narrative problems they are apt to create and how to choose an effective strategy for solving them. The result? Strong, solid stories and novels that move.
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First Sentence edit
If you're like me and most of the writers I've known over the years in writers' groups, at conferences and in classes, you're coming to plot the hard way.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction: Coming to Plot the Hard Way
Chapter 1: What is Plot?
Chapter 2: Grand Openings
Chapter 3: Would you Trust a Viewpoint With Shifty Eyes?
Chapter 4: "Shut up!" He Explained -- Handling Exposition
Chapter 5: Early Middles: New Directions and Subplots
Chapter 6: Building the Big Scenes: Set-Pieces
Chapter 7: Harnessing Melodrama
Chapter 8: Patterns, Mirrors, and Echoes
Chapter 9: Pacing, Transitions, Flashes, and Frames
Chapter 10: When You Come To The End, Stop
Chapter 11: Beyond Plot
Index
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Elements of Fiction Writing. (publisher series)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Ansen Dibell (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1988
ISBN: 0898793033
Page Count: 170
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1988
ISBN: 0898793033
Page Count: 170
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PN3378.D5 1988
- Dewey: 808.3
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