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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