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Aside from mechanical errors such as spelling and grammar problems, many people on Writing.Com need to thoroughly understand the concept of the structure of a story -- that it requires a beginning, middle, and ending. But how to tell that story? Aeeiii, now that is the problem of every author. I really enjoyed how the author of this book, Nancy Kress, explained the mechanics of writing a story. I felt as if she were talking directly to me in There’s a story in your head—or maybe just the start of a story. Characters are walking around in there, talking to each other, doing things to the furniture, gesturing and shouting and laughing. You can see it all so clearly, like a movie rolling in your mind. It’s going to be terrific. Excited, you sit down to write. But something happens. The story that comes out on the page isn’t the same as the story in your head. The dialogue is flatter, the action doesn’t read right, the feel just isn’t the same. There’s a gap between the story you can visualize and the one you know how to write. And at that moment, that gap resembles the Mariana Trench—deep, scary and uncrossable. If you’ve ever felt this way about your writing, you’re not alone. The truth is that there’s always a gap between the story as you imagined it—compelling, insightful, rich with subtle nuance—and what actually ends up in the manuscript. | ||
Further Comments... | ||
CHAPTERS Introduction: The Story in Your Head Part I: Beginnings 1. The Very Beginning: Your Opening Scene 2. The Later Beginning: Your Second Scene 3. Help for Beginnings: Early Revision Part II: Middles 4. The Middle: Staying on Track 5. Under Development: Your Characters at Midstory 6. Help for Middles: Getting Unstuck Part III: Endings 7. Satisfying Endings: Delivering on the Promise 8. The Very End: Last Scene, Last Paragraph, Last Sentence 9. Help for Endings: The Last Hurrah | ||
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