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Blueprints (24-30) - Coggle Diagram
Blueprints (24-30)
Reports vs. Stories
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Stories transport reader through space, time, imagination
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Writer must decide if project requires report, story, or combo
Combining, authors can speak to hearts and heads, creating sympathy and understanding
Stories require rising/falling action, complications, point of insight, resolutions
Novelist invents these movements, non-fiction writer reports them
Tom Wolf matched truthful reporting with fictional techniques of setting scenes, finding details of character, capturing dialog, and shifting points of view
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Observe how a novelist transforms politics, history, geography into narrative and apply these to own work
Dialog as action
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If done well, advances story
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Quotes are about the action, not in the action, thus delaying narrative
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Plans
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Good work has beginning, middle, ending
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As alternative to creating outline up front, extract outline from first draft
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Character traits
Reveal character traits through scenes, details, dialog
Cloudy adjectives weaken good writing - quirky, obsessive
Best writers create
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Images revealing characteristics, aspirations, hopes, fears
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Alternatively, observe peoples behavior, appearance, speech; capture as adjectives
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odd/interesting
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Coupling of unlikely elements is occasion for humor, broad and subtle
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Photographers often see visual details in juxtaposition, i.e. street person wearing corsage
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Use cliffhangers
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For a blog or website, what would it take that would make clicking to see next screen irresistible
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