Tuesday, December 15, 2015

The structure of a scene

It's good to design an antagonist carefully when writing a novel for publication.

I peek into a well worn copy of .......Story Engineering by Larry Brooks.

Larry discusses proven recipes for commercial Fiction. Here is where I remembered I already read these words and they were underlined. You don't put the whole story in the first act.

Learn where, when and how much to ad and where.

The antagonist can appear in the first quarter of the book, but do not explain everything if anything. It will destroy the odds of a good book.

I love this book but is full of facts that require study. When it's not coming smoothly, I think about the goal of my protagonist but in this scene my hero is not around.When it's not coming smoothly, I think about the goal of my protagonist... but in this scene my hero is not around.   http://amzn.to/1OuBw84
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Tuesday, June 9, 2015


 
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    Some times I dream about love but I wake up and and think about .... something else.
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    Thursday, May 28, 2015

    Rules of Thumb

    Rules. It is a nasty word to the new writer. Like Outline. Top selling writers say things and we try to soak them up..glome ...glom /**** Absorb..

     For me I spent way to much effort fixated and dreaming this was the way to be great...at writing and golf... what you hate is the thing you need to love....  hating messes with the free flow of thoughts...it can slow down your progress and your enjoyment. I see seasoned writer's say I love writing outlines and planning my novel... haven't finished my first novel yet... I did  managed to publish the first six pages.


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    Monday, May 25, 2015

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    Channeling Your BEST

    http://chicagonovelist.blogspot.com/ I'm writing and I'm a writer but I'm not a published writer but I will be because I believe it. I've always known that avid belief and finishing BIG were connected in the STARS.

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    Monday, May 18, 2015

    Channeling JAMES PATTERSON

    Dedicated to saving money and learning to write, I started seeking advice on line for free.


    .... the chance to listen to a Master storyteller .... is great. It put so much in perspective.

    The thing that was not clear from all my  study, was how to finish an outline? I didn't get it.

    Even though it was in Steve Alcorn's works.

     ... outlining, its a must.... Patterson sold me on his twist....


    There is so much more but a detailed draft is the milestone I have never achieved. And I am convinced its got to be the first stop on the road to a Universal Bestseller... not that I care about money or fame....I've lived fine this long with out  it.

    I hope to get lots of mileage out of the course . It is motivating.


    Thanks James Patterson,

    Leon Davis

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    Saturday, November 29, 2014

    Leon F. Davis says Alcorn, Steve ). How To Fix Your Novel (

    Worth It in spades if you study it.

    Leon F. Davis






    Alcorn, Steve (2012-03-04).

    How To Fix Your Novel

    Kindle Edition.

     What makes this a great book?
     It is worth the study.
    Can you get it on Audible?  OVER AND OVER listen to it.


    Nine point outline



    This is an early start of a novel    I am  working on.Using the  check list in Steve's Book.
    Act 1 scene1
    Hook- 

    Wellington Doud arrives home.  As he walks in the door his wife slams the phone down.  She explains someone has been calling every ten minutes and laughing in some foreign language.
    He plays it down, and calms her down
    They go out to dinner...she wants to announce her first pregnancy
    They plan to meet her sister and husband...Is suposed to be a happy surprise but  they are a no show.

    Background -

    I was working as a private detective when  things started to come unglued.
    A routine case of insurance fraud turned up an individual who had assumed a false identity. The perpetrator went to jail but the police had 
    no success finding his true identity. The FBI was called in to help. The FBI identifies the prisoner but the killer made a daring and ingenious jail break. It was the deadly flesh eating Crime Gang Cartel leader, the Cannibal,  aka THE Bumper.

    Trigger- Doud's  wife is murmured. and he is shot, they both  go  to Spawn Memorial Hospital., Corpus Christi, Texas.  A baby boy is born...they were expection a girl.

    Act 2

    Crisis- moment of doubt and questioning... Jesus help me...he meant it. He was a Bible belt kid raised on a ranch married at 17 to his hight school sweetheart. [Mr. Sqeakey clean] Turning the other Cheek was not an option in his mind... and it tears away at his core belief system.

    Struggle  ~series of trial and error.
    The jail break was accomplished by the Bumper's  extorting and threating someone one  at the county lock-up. The FBI shares: their is a vast gang...working with Chinese Nationals flooding the states with low cost pot and senthetic herion. Add Twists , slow progress to nail the Canibal/Bumper.


    Epiphany  Doud realizes this might be the big case of all cases and calls a friend in Washington to get a referral of someone with clout and experience. A retired  Mob Busting agent from Chicago is unofficially santioned to establish the net work and ewaluation in Mexico and Texas acting as a leader of Mercenaries FBI Agent from Chicago to  clearly, a moment of optimistic clarity.- or something...

    Act 3

    The plan
    The agent from Chicago, Adam Berlin, is the son of a world class chemist who worked in ananimity for years doing and now directing research at the U of C.

    They anticipated this time would come. They have going gene slicing experiments that ...bla bla bla...

    The climax
     
    The End


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