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Bickham, Jack M. · 1993
Sequence ladder
Narrative Intelligence sources live outside the figurative image sequence ladder. Adaptive placement applies to image sequences, not this reading library.
What this book knows
Fiction lives or dies by the scene-sequel engine: goal, conflict, disaster, reaction, decision, new action — repeat until story ends.
self-and-identity
Our self-concept is our most precious mental and emotional possession. Any significant change can and probably will threaten it.
EFWS-RC-007Reader can't be expected to worry passively about the same vague and unchanging bad situation for several hundred pages. He needs something concrete to worry about.
EFWS-RC-009mind-and-cognition
Out of analysis comes planning. Your character tries to lay out a new plan, considers options, weighs them, discards some, rank-orders the rest.
EFWS-RC-057work-as-meaning
Why would a writer dilute the conflict or duck it altogether? Three possible reasons: shyness, fear or fatigue.
EFWS-RC-037Writers have probably sweated enough to fill Lake Erie trying to figure out how to motivate Priscilla to open the locked door, or what might happen after she did.
EFWS-RC-013Far from being a straitjacket, a master plot can be a dynamic, developing manifestation of your growing understanding of scene and structure.
EFWS-RC-133Illuminates
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