Writing Great Fiction
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Lecture 8: Integrating Dialogue into a Narrative completely unrelated, and the sound of their voices serves to evoke the speaker ...
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from again. The sole function of Dr. Mortimer in Conan Doyle’s 7KH +RXQGRIWKH%DVNHUYLOOHV, for example, is to appear from ti ...
Lecture 8: Integrating Dialogue into a Narrative Without invading the participants’ privacy, take a fragment of real-life conve ...
And Then—Turning a Story into a Plot ............................................. Lecture 9 A s noted earlier in the course, li ...
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z Done well, each version of Sarah and Brad’s story could be satisfying and meaningful, yet each would be completely different ...
Lecture 9: And Then—Turning a Story into a Plot z Closer to the middle of the continuum between story and plot are such blockbu ...
freighter, called the 3DWQD, collides with some unseen object in the water and threatens to sink, the rest of the crew prepares ...
Lecture 9: And Then—Turning a Story into a Plot most of us learn about other people in our lives. The result is a much more inte ...
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Lecture 10: Plotting with the Freytag Pyramid z Next comes the inciting action, which is the event that introduces FRQÀLFWLQWR ...
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Lecture 10: Plotting with the Freytag Pyramid z The denouement is the ending of the story, when order is restored. At this stag ...
Complicating Traditional Plots z Perhaps the Freytag pyramid seems so instinctive because, in its simplest form, it is often th ...
Lecture 10: Plotting with the Freytag Pyramid z Another way to vary the Freytag pyramid is to create OHDSIURJJLQJ or a FRQWUDSX ...
Martin, $6RQJRI,FHDQG)LUH. Tolkien, 7KH/RUGRIWKH5LQJV. Try to graph some of your favorite books, movies, or television ...
Lecture 11: Adding Complexity to Plots Adding Complexity to Plots............................................................... ...
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