ideas4writers home page

the ideas collection for writers

Vol 2: General Fiction

Vol 3: Genre Fiction

Vol 4: Writing, Editing and
Publishing

Vol 5: Non-Fiction, Poetry
and Children

Vol 6: Erotica

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Structure

 

Structure

60 very clever ideas that make it faster and easier to create compelling fiction and non-fiction structures and significantly improve your writing.

Conceived, written and tested by the renowned writer, thinker and innovator, Dave Haslett.

29 pages, ebook (PDF), £2.99

Add to Cart

 

This book includes:

  • How to create a story blueprint
  • How to write "unputdownable" stories
  • Understanding basic novel structure
  • Understanding scene-sequel structures
  • Understanding the three-act structure
  • Classic myth structure
  • Advanced (but very easy) alternative structures
  • Unusual structures
  • How to avoid being too predictable
  • When to use set pieces, and how to write them
  • Great ways to begin your story
  • All about cause and effect
  • How to write symmetrical stories
  • How to skip the boring bits
  • Easy outlining
  • Which rule you can break
  • When to move the goalposts
  • How to write compelling non-fiction using fiction structures
  • How to work with multiple viewpoints
  • The best way to organise non-fiction
  • Should your novel have chapters?
  • Plus a better structure than beginning-middle-end
  • And lots of easy ways to create great fiction and non-fiction structures - far too many great ideas to list here!

Sample idea: Chinese box

The Chinese Box makes an intriguing (and fairly easy) way of producing
"unputdownable" stories. In this structure you end up with a story within a story within a story, nested several layers deep. As the tale progresses, your readers are left increasingly on tenterhooks, awaiting the outcome of not just one story but an ever-growing number of them.

[EXAMPLE] You might begin by telling what seems to be a straightforward
story, but break off at an intriguing moment when the hero comes across an old document. The document unfolds another intriguing story, but then breaks off midway when it refers the reader to a separate letter. That letter refers the reader to another document, a will perhaps, and that in turn might refer the reader to a videotape locked in a bank vault. Once the videotape has been viewed, the rest of the will can be revealed - the part that your readers have been waiting for. With the reading of the will concluded, readers at last gets to see what was in the rest of the letter, and finally we are returned to the document that started it all off and we find out how it ends. And with all of that over and done with, the main story resumes where it left off many pages ago, and finally draws to a conclusion.

You can add many more layers than this if you like. The important thing is to keep is intriguing, always breaking off just before the big revelation and making your readers wait, in a delicious agony of suspense.

Alternative product:

You might prefer the complete Volume 1 (The Elements of Fiction)

Includes: Characters, Description & Setting,
Dialogue, Plot, Structure, Theme

799 very clever ideas, 310 pages, £15.99

more information    Add to Cart


Become a lifetime member and get ALL of our ebooks - just £49.95!

more information


Guarantee
Your 100% no-risk guarantee

If the books you buy from us aren't right for you, tell us within 60 days. We'll refund your payment within 24 hours - and you can keep the books!

 


ideas4writers home page | associates programme | privacy policy | about us
Copyright © 2012 ideas4writers and its licensors. All rights reserved.
ideas4writers, 2a New Street, Cullompton, Devon, EX15 1HA, United Kingdom
Phone: 01884 839577     Email: enquiries@ideas4writers.co.uk