The Plot Thickens:
Eight Ways to Bring Fiction to Life
by Noah Lukeman
St. Martins Press
(July 2002, Hardcover) (June 2003, Trade Paperback)
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selection of the
Writers Digest Book Club in Paperback
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From the literary agent and
author of the bestselling The First
Five Pages,
comes a groundbreaking new book on plot development
The art of plot development has become synonymous with having a "great idea." But a great idea is merely an abstraction without characterization, journey, suspense, conflict, and context. Analyzing the elements of classic storytelling, The Plot Thickens enables beginning and advanced writers alike to consider how these elements can combine--in many heretofore unimagined ways--to produce the kind of plot that will make their work transcendent. A veritable fiction-writing workshop, writers will find it impossible to walk away from this invaluable guide without boundless new ideas.
also published in the United Kingdom by
John Hale Publishers (hardcover)
Fall, 2002