#Non-fiction Writing Deep Scenes
- Author: M. Alderson
- Title: Writing Deep Scenes
- Published: 2015 (248 pg)
- Genre: non-fiction
- Monthly plan
Goals:
- What did I learn?
- Goals (tangible) –> provide motivation
- Obstacles–> provide tension
- Potential for loss –> provides action
- Action? forces the main character to change
- If I remember just these 4 tips
- I should be able to discover the essence of a story
- …which will make reviewing the book much easier!
Emotion:
- What did I learn?
- Concentrate on the ’emotional reactions’
- of the main character in the first 25% of the book!
- These reactions identify/introduce character to the reader.
- Compare these reactions to who the main character
- …what he/she becomes at the end of the book.
Conclusion:
- I did not like this book.
- Chapter “The Basics” was good but I found
- that the rest of the book was a string of repeated phrases
- and simple concepts.
- The book was filled extraneous material!
- Examples are good, there’s such a thing as excess.
- I preferred: Plot and Structure
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