Mastering Suspense, Structure, and Plot: How to Write Gripping Stories That Keep Readers on the Edge of Their Seats
作家志望者に向けて、サスペンス、構成、プロットの組み立てを実践的に解説するノンフィクション。ケーススタディと練習問題を通じて、物語を引き締める方法を具体的に示す。
作品情報
物語を強くするための、実践的な設計図。
幅広いジャンルに通じるサスペンスの技法を、具体的な例と演習で読み解く。物語を組み立てる側の視点から、読者の注意を保ち続ける方法を学べる一冊。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Penguin Publishing Group
- 発売日
- 2016-04-28
- ページ数
- 240ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 14 x 1.5 x 21.3 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781599639673
- ISBN-10
- 159963967X
- 価格
- 3309 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Education & Reference/Writing, Research & Publishing Guides/Publishing & Books/Authorship
Enthrall Your Readers! Suspense is one of the most powerful tools a writer has for captivating readers--but it isn't just for thrillers. From mainstream fiction to memoir, suspense creates the emotional tension that keeps readers on the edge of their seats. Mastering Suspense, Structure, & Plot is your hands-on guide to weaving suspense into your narrative. Award-winning author Jane K. Cleland teaches you how to navigate genre conventions, write for your audience, and build gripping tension to craft an irresistible page-turner. Inside, Cleland will show you how to: • Implement thirteen no-fail techniques to construct an effective plot and structure for your story • Use Cleland's Plotting Road Map to add elements of suspense like twists, reversals, and moments of danger • Write subplots with purpose • Improve your descriptions, character development, sentence structure, and more Packed with case studies, exercises, and dozens of examples from best-selling authors, Mastering Suspense, Structure, & Plot is the key to writing suspenseful, engaging stories that leave your readers wanting more. ------ "Indispensable! For newbie authors and veterans alike, this terrific how-to is your new go-to. Don't write your book without it--it's a treasure." -- Hank Phillippi Ryan , Agatha, Anthony, Macavity and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author
レビュー
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I’m working on a mystery and this book has been packed with useful ideas and helpful exercises. A must have for writers of crime fiction and suspense.
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I can't wait to edit my latest thriller after reading this! There's advice from everything to word choice to sentence structure to plotting methods and techniques for ramping up the tension. I especially like the list of distancing verbs! Practical advice with great exercises and examples in every chapter.
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Essential for everyone who wants to be a writer.
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great
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What can I say, this book is veeery helpful. Some of the advice wasn't too new to me, for I charged through countless blogs, Authortube channels and other books beforehand, but still, this book contains such useful information that I haven't read anywhere else and sometimes I sat there like "Ohhhh. Noice." It presents very useful frameworks like the Plotting Road Map and interesting "KPIs" like the average word count per sentence for pacing coordination. And a ton of good techniques on implementing suspense through various "channels". All in all, I really recommend it, if you are interested in the big and smaller bits of plot and suspense implementation as well as writing.
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