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James Hynes · 2014
Storytelling Tips from a Master — James Hynes on character, plot, POV, dialog, scene. Layer-1 writing-craft corpus.
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 craft is a set of learnable decisions: every choice of point of view, pacing, scene, and structure shapes what the reader feels and believes.
mind-and-cognition
Everything we know about Sam Spade we learn from observing him move and listening to him talk, the same way we would in real life.
GC-WGF-RC-015Silence is paired with active verbs—falls, deepens, murmurs—changing it from an absence of sound to an active presence.
GC-WGF-RC-075self-and-identity
Perhaps the most important distinction between flat and round characters has to do with inner complexity and the capacity for change.
GC-WGF-RC-027It's possible to imagine a reader who can't believe someone as smart and independent as Jane would give someone as manipulative as Mr. Rochester a second chance.
GC-WGF-RC-058education-and-formation
The more material you put into a long first draft, the more material you have to work with.
GC-WGF-RC-087Without thinking about it too much, imagine some striking or intriguing situation, then try imagining the very next thing that happens.
GC-WGF-RC-057Illuminates
6 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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