Immersing the Reader in the Fictive Dream
Firsts in Fiction Podcast: Season Two, Episode Ten–Immersing Readers in the Fictive Dream
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Ask the Author: Mia Northrop via aarongansky.com. “When rewriting and removing whole chapters, what do you physically do with the text? Do you cut it and paste it into another document for reference just in case, delete it and say goodbye or something else?”
FROM THE VAULTS: WEEK 2, ACT 2
Last week, I began a three-week series on the three act structure. Most commonly used for screenplays, novelists have long borrowed the basic structure to help outline novels. Bottom line, the three-act structure is a proven story-telling technique. This week, we’ll look at Act II.
The Biz–Contracts
Ask the Author: Aaron Gansky–Where did the idea for your first novel come from?
Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing
It’s a pretty popular thing for accomplished writers to compile lists of rules* for writing fiction. This week, Steve and I tackle 10 of these rules as suggested by Elmore Leonard. Elmore Leonard cut his teeth writing westerns, but quickly moved on to crime novels. He wrote nearly two dozen novels (many of them best…
Plot and Structure: Endings
Ask the Author: Mia Northrop via aarongansky.com – have you ever worried that references to real people (eg current political figures) or technology or media (eg iPhones, Facebook) would negatively date a book? Is there a trade off between reflecting current trends and the longevity of a novel?
First Lines
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