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    Writing Deep Scenes: Plotting Your Story Through Action, Emotion, and Theme
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    Writing Deep Scenes: Plotting Your Story Through Action, Emotion, and Theme

    By Martha Alderson and Jordan Rosenfeld

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    About this ebook

    Take a Deep Dive into Plot and Scene and Improve Your Writing

    Whether you're planning your first novel or have already written a first draft, you need to master the concepts of plot and scene to truly realize your story's potential. Writing Deep Scenes teaches you how to write strong, layered, and engaging scenes--the secret to memorable, page-turning plots. It's filled with practical tools for building layers and nuance into your scenes, employing the right scene types at the right junctures, and developing a profound understanding of how plot and scene intertwine.

    Inside you'll learn:

    • How scenes are comprised of three key layers: action, emotion, and theme.
    • How to recognize each layer and weave them seamlessly into a scene.
    • How to develop an intricate relationship between the action and emotion in every scene.
    • How thematic imagery embedded in scenes increases a story's tension and contributes to the story's meaning.
    Using contemporary examples from a variety of genres, Writing Deep Scenes provides an effective method for plotting at the scene level. Use these techniques and enrich your fiction and memoirs with page-turning suspense and pathos, and explore new depths in every story you write.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWriter's Digest Books
    Release dateSep 4, 2015
    ISBN9781599638874
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    Writing Deep Scenes: Plotting Your Story Through Action, Emotion, and Theme
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    Martha Alderson

    Martha Alderson, MA, is the author of the bestselling The Plot Whisperer. She writes novels for readers, plots books for writers, and most recently a workbook for anyone looking to enrich their lives with more creativity and inspiration. Martha has been exploring and writing about the Universal Story for the past twenty years as part of the plot support she offers to writers. She first introduced the Universal Story in The Plot Whisperer to transform writers’ creative lives and to “show” plot. More recently, she has expanded her work to include helping people transform their creative lives.

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