The focus of this guide is on plotting full-length novels, but there are also chapters on plotting short stories, series and serials.
Author: Rayne Hall
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 1537740229
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It can be a bony hand creeping from behind a curtain, a grand passion, someone
teetering on a high ledge, or any of a thousand vivid situations and characters.
Their meaning is right out in the open; they seem special, unusual, exciting.
Author: Ansen Dibell
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781599635101
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 176
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(1) The use of moving and vivid plots. Historical figures tend to be well known
because they did something extraordinary, in either a positive or negative sense.
Some were actively involved in politics; some joined military campaigns and
fought ...
Author: Stanley Schab
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824819705
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 99
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This vivid passage is reminiscent of another well - known passage by Woolf that
is frequently cited . ... 7 Looked at in the context of this polemical piece written at
the same time , the story is obviously a vehicle for the deployment of the ...
Author: Shelley Saguaro
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 0754637530
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 249
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the characters , how unusual the basic idea – without a plot there is no novel .
Even if what the readers remember afterwards is the fascinating premise , or the
unusual aliens , or the strange and vivid other world , the writer's ability to
construct ...
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Publisher: Unistar Books
ISBN:
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taken up, beginning with the writing of plots and extending, first, to continuities
and thence to synopses in detail. By this course of study a systematic and vivid
mental background is added to the mind; the acquisition of technique is sure ...
Author: Howard T. Dimick
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781473382831
Category: Drama
Page: 172
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A little times writing this plot and never repeat a nester , his wife and small son ,
homesteadcharacter . ... One more plot before we come to more Still vivid ,
though I read it years ago , is important matters — handling the storya David and
...
Author: Robert Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: MINN:31951001126660E
Category: Authorship
Page: 275
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For that matter , " Bad Character Loses ” – the final kind of plot we ' ll be
discussing here - is also pretty depressing . ... Sure , you still need crisp dialogue
, vivid description , true - to - life characters , and more - because good writing ,
too , is a ...
Author: Tom Clark
Publisher:
ISBN: IND:30000025868021
Category: Authorship
Page: 260
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Even when the plot seems most tangled , the vivid characterizations hold the
reader's interest . ... The melodrama of the plot carries over into the prose , and
many chapters end with cliff - hanging episodes which are lushly overwritten .
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:49015002914928
Category: Literature
Page: 7336
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Author: William Henry Hills
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015067425218
Category: Authorship
Page:
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Zulu literature : Zulu was , for a certain period , a very important and apparently
rich literary source for the pioneers of Ndebele writing in Rhodesia . They praise
Nyembezi's vivid language and characterisations , his plots and moral lessons ...
Author: Flora Veit-Wild
Publisher:
ISBN: IND:30000001699408
Category: Authors, Black
Page: 172
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A surprising number undertake to supply you with ready - made plots . ... PLOTS .
Our plots are set out in sequence all ready for write - up , with lengths for each
sequence . No remoulding necessary — just the ... PLOTS : in vivid scenes .
Author: George Orwell
Publisher:
ISBN: UCSC:32106012401037
Category:
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The great writer is the one who has firmly grasped the central idea or single
action of his story and then has been able to render that action entirely concrete
and vivid . Since the plot is the soul of the poetic work it must be unified ;
otherwise it ...
Author: Benedict M. Ashley
Publisher:
ISBN: WISC:89009727322
Category: Education, Secondary
Page: 622
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Sound plotting is what the author makes happen to characters when
circumstances temporarily defy the audience ' s expectations . The key ... No
writer can hope always to deal with what is genuinely new – still less what is
actually original – but there ' s no real excuse for ever serving up something that
isn ' t fresh . ... In similar fashion , vivid characterisation is simply the obvious
taken out of context .
Author: Colin Haydn Evans
Publisher:
ISBN: 0749000074
Category: Radio authorship
Page: 109
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A vivid imagination might His chirography resembles that of Mr . Benjamin I easily
be deduced from such a MS . ... Miss Sedgwick ' s hand not ostentatiously formed
, and with persect freedom writing points unequivocally to the traits of her of ...
Author: Jared Gardner
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015053487198
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 238
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Both these writers were willing to be content with a series of short meditations
which isolated a few characteristics of their ... many others do , is not so much
strong subject matter , vivid plots , and fascinating personae , 57 On Not Writing a
Novel.
Author: Rosellen Brown
Publisher: Middlebury College
ISBN: 0874516455
Category: Literary Collections
Page: 309
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This vivid passage with its open personification of nature , its joy checked by an
apprehension of destructiveness ( ' we ... is placed in apposition to Nature - - not '
the economy of Nature ' , nor ' the surface ' , as he had written in earlier versions ...
Author: Gillian Beer
Publisher: Ark Edition
ISBN: STANFORD:36105008520863
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 303
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To put it another way : Good plots involve vivid characters , and good characters
are always involved in a plot that tests their mettle . We've made a great many
plot decisions in the previous two chapters . Some attention has been paid to ...
Author: Jack Bickham
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
ISBN: PSU:000023339385
Category: Reference
Page: 213
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She then prepared herself for the ultimate challengefulfilling her lifelong
aspiration to place the vivid plots and ... Writing is my ultimate love , and nothing
compares with the satisfaction of creating new characters and devising a new
plot .
Author: Mary Lynn Baxter
Publisher: Harlequin Books
ISBN: 0373201680
Category: Fiction
Page: 608
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