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This book includes:
- How to create goals and hooks
- How to be original - and why it's important
- Understanding and controlling pace
- Easy plotting and planning
- How to improve your scenes
- Understanding sequels, prequels and reversals - and why they
aren't what you think they are
- How to think visually - and why you should
- Understanding active and passive writing
- Developing your writing style
- All about symbolism
- Why small details really matter
- Adding tension
- What to do if your story is too short
- The different types of villain
- How to create a sense of anticipation
- 10 different types of beginning
- 5 different types of ending
- Understanding cause and effect
- How to reveal a character's thoughts
- Adapting classic movie scenes
- Giving your descriptions multiple purposes
- Understanding the 4 levels of conflict
- How to turn a drama into a crisis
- The best ways of creating dilemmas
- How to force your characters to make difficult decisions
- 5 ways of using dreams
- How to grow your own soap opera
- All about foreshadowing
- Understanding flashbacks
- Why accuracy is important
- All about research
- How to add multiple layers to your stories
- 15 major turning points
- Plus hundreds of great ways to find story and character
ideas
- And more than 90 ready-made storylines for you
to
use
or adapt
Sample idea: Altering characters
Obviously it's important to keep a careful eye on your characters,
especially when editing, to ensure that their basic characteristics
- such as eye colour - remain unchanged. But what if you deliberately
change someone's eye colour (or something else)? How might that
have happened? Surgery? Illness? Genetic mutation? Coloured contact
lenses? However it happened, there's a story to be told about
it. Why has it changed, or why has the character had it changed?
Has anything else about him changed? You might like to search
the internet to see if there are any real-life instances of people's
eyes changing colour - or whatever characteristic it is that
you're writing about. What caused it and what effect did it have
on their lives? If you can't find anything to say it's ever happened
in real life, then you can just make it up.
There was a white woman in South Africa whose skin turned black
and she became a victim of apartheid - I believe this was caused
by a tumour in her thyroid gland. Another disease, vitiligo,
causes loss of skin colour, so black people's skin becomes mottled
and eventually turns white. White people can get it too, and
it can also affect hair, including eyebrows and eyelashes, turning
them white or grey, even if the sufferer is young. Then
there are people who wake up and find that they now have foreign accents. Although
rare, this is a real condition too.
What other seemingly impossible changes might happen to a person?
Perhaps he might grow an extra finger, or an arm, or his hair
might grow back after years of being bald. Or he might have a
growth spurt and grow much taller, even though he's an adult.
And, of course, there are people who have been cured of long-term
or lifelong disabilities and afflictions through innovations
in medicine. Some formerly blind people can now see. People who
have spent their entire lives bed-bound or in wheelchairs can
now walk to some degree. There are plenty of fascinating stories
- both real and imagined - to be told. And who knows what might
become possible in the future? You could have a jolly good guess
- and then include it in one of your stories!
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