Conflict, Action and Suspense

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Conf lict, Action & Suspense What makes a book a page-tumer? How do you grab your readers right from the start and hold them through the last sentence? How do you make your plot twist and tűm and keep the action moving without losing continuity? You do it by generating drama and developing it using conflict, action and suspense. You make your reader bum to know what's going to happen next. You create tension.. .and build it.. .to the breaking point. William Noble shows you how to intensify that pressure throughout your story. You'll leam exactly what constitutes conflict, action and suspense, how they relate to other important ingredients in your story, and-perhaps most important-how to manipulate them. Through thorough, step-by-step instruction, you'll leam how to... • set the stage with techniques and devices that enhance drama. • introduce suspense from the very beginning of your story. • build suspense through cliff-hangers, dialogue, mood, character development, point of view,... Tovább

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Conf lict, Action & Suspense What makes a book a page-tumer? How do you grab your readers right from the start and hold them through the last sentence? How do you make your plot twist and tűm and keep the action moving without losing continuity? You do it by generating drama and developing it using conflict, action and suspense. You make your reader bum to know what's going to happen next. You create tension.. .and build it.. .to the breaking point. William Noble shows you how to intensify that pressure throughout your story. You'll leam exactly what constitutes conflict, action and suspense, how they relate to other important ingredients in your story, and-perhaps most important-how to manipulate them. Through thorough, step-by-step instruction, you'll leam how to... • set the stage with techniques and devices that enhance drama. • introduce suspense from the very beginning of your story. • build suspense through cliff-hangers, dialogue, mood, character development, point of view, subtlety and indirection, and time and piacé. • bring all that conflict, action and suspense to a gripping conclusion. There are all sorts of ways to create tension in your prose-from using acfjectives and nouns that drip with imagery to making quick scene cuts and transitions to accelerating the pace. Leam them here. Then use them, and your story will plunge your readers intő a river of worry.. .and the current will carty them to The End. Don't miss the other fine books in THE ELEMENTS OF FICTION WRITING,the definitive Creative writing series: Characters & Viewpoint by Orsón Scott Card Scene & Structure by Jack M. Bickham Beginnings, Middles & Ends by Nancy Kress Voice & Style by Johnny Payne Setting by Jack M. Bickham Plot by Ansen Dibell Dialogue by LewisTurco Descríption by Monica Wood Manuscript Submission by Scott Edelstein Vissza