Plot: How to Tell the Story

Gonnabeez presents a new online course starting February 4th at 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and continuing on the first Monday of every month. We will discuss the essense of story crafting and how it relates to the other elements of fiction.

Recommended Reading:

Books
• Story by Robert McKee
• Beginnings, Middles & Ends: How to get your stories off to a roaring start, keep them tight and crisp throughout, and end them with a wallop. by Nancy Kress
• Theme & Strategy: How to build a strong, narrative structure to help your fiction stand tall, run fast, hit hard, and soar to success. by Ronald B. Tobias
• Plot: How to build short stories and novels that don't sag, fizzle, or trail off in scraps of frustrated revision--and how to rescue stories that do. by Ansen Dibell

  Online Articles:

• The "Basic" Plots in Literature
• Thirty-Seven Dramatic Situations
• "What Makes an Effective Plot" by Susan Malone
• "Problem/Solution Chains: A Solution for Plotting Problems" by Deborah Hale
• "Scenes and Sequels" by Leslie Kelly
• The Nine-Act Structure by David Siegel

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