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Subject: Author Bob Mayer about setting the course for your story

dialyn opened this issue on Apr 13, 2006 · 5 posts
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dialyn ( ) posted Thu, 13 April 2006 at 4:36 PM · edited Sun, 17 November 2024 at 5:42 AM

Attached Link: http://www.bobmayer.org/

Shared by someone who attended a conference at which author Bob Mayer was a speaker:

*He said to write down what your opening scene will be and then immediately write down what the climax of your story will be. This serves two purposes: *

  1. *It gives you something to drive toward. *
  2. *Often the climax mirrors the opening scene the inciting incident) on a larger level. As the story progresses, your protagonist gathers the tools and knowledge to be able to deal with the climactic event, which he/she would not have the ability (or not realize he has the ability) to do in the opening scene. (The character must grow, in other words).

 

Elminster_ZK ( ) posted Thu, 13 April 2006 at 8:19 PM

hmm, interesting. Cool link.

You know dialyn, I never imagined you having an avatar like that. Don't ask me why, I just didn't. :tongue2:

"Walk down the right back alley in Sin City, and you can find anything."

dialyn ( ) posted Thu, 13 April 2006 at 9:02 PM

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It's a good sign when someone still has the ability to surprise.

 

 

Elminster_ZK ( ) posted Thu, 13 April 2006 at 10:29 PM

:m_bouncy: this is the closest to a nodding emoticon we have :D

"Walk down the right back alley in Sin City, and you can find anything."

deemarie ( ) posted Tue, 18 April 2006 at 10:13 AM

I have Bob's book "The Novel Writer's Toolkit" sitting on my bedside table … one of my favorite reference books. 

His approach to writing is both less formal and less formalized then most. He gives suggestions rather than inflexible rules.

Dee-Marie

 

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