Recently, I finished the first draft of my third book. It takes time to distance yourself from a manuscript before you can objectively edit it, so I picked up a project that had been working on for some time. The idea behind the project is to create a high-level story blueprint to see if a …
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The Three-Act Structure
Novelists can learn a lot from scriptwriters who have developed a number of tools for story development. One such tool is the three-act structure. Screenwriters often use "Acts" - a concept more familiar to staged drama - to breakdown the structure of their movies into major parts. Of course there are no curtain calls in …
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