Writing Deep Scenes: Plotting Your Story Through Action, Emotion, and Theme

Writing Deep Scenes: Plotting Your Story Through Action, Emotion, and Theme - Paperback

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Writing Deep Scenes: Plotting Your Story Through Action, Emotion, and Theme

Writing Deep Scenes: Plotting Your Story Through Action, Emotion, and Theme - Paperback

by Martha Alderson , Jordan Rosenfeld
$27.00
Sale price  $27.00 Regular price 

Book Overview

Take a Deep Dive into Plot and Scene and Improve Your Writing

Whether you're planning your first novel or have already written a first draft, you need to master the concepts of plot and scene to truly realize your story's potential. Writing Deep Scenes teaches you how to write strong, layered, and engaging scenes--the secret to memorable, page-turning plots. It's filled with practical tools for building layers and nuance into your scenes, employing the right scene types at the right junctures, and developing a profound understanding of how plot and scene intertwine.

Inside you'll learn:

- How scenes are comprised of three key layers: action, emotion, and theme.
- How to recognize each layer and weave them seamlessly into a scene.
- How to develop an intricate relationship between the action and emotion in every scene.
- How thematic imagery embedded in scenes increases a story's tension and contributes to the story's meaning.
Using contemporary examples from a variety of genres, Writing Deep Scenes provides an effective method for plotting at the scene level. Use these techniques and enrich your fiction and memoirs with page-turning suspense and pathos, and explore new depths in every story you write.
ISBN9781599638836
Author Martha Alderson , Jordan Rosenfeld
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
GenreEducation
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2015
LanguageENG- English
Pages256
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Martha Alderson
Martha Alderson, MA, is the author of the bestselling The Plot Whisperer. She writes novels for readers, plots books for writers, and most recently a workbook for anyone looking to enrich their lives with more creativity and inspiration. Martha has been exploring and writing about the Universal Story for the past twenty years as part of the plot support she offers to writers. She first introduced the Universal Story in The Plot Whisperer to transform writers' creative lives and to "show" plot. More recently, she has expanded her work to include helping people transform their creative lives.
About Jordan Rosenfeld
Jordan Rosenfeld is author of the forthcoming novel Fallout (Running Wild Press, 2025), as well as Women in Red and Forged in Grace and six books on the craft of writing, including How to Write a Page-Turner, the bestselling Make a Scene, Writing the Intimate Character, A Writer's Guide to Persistence, Writing Deep Scenes and Write Free. Her freelance writing has been published in hundreds of publications, including: The Atlantic, The New York Times, Scientific American, Writer's Digest Magazine, The Washington Post and many more. She holds an MFA from the Writing Seminars at Bennington College. She has taught writing through the University of Oslo, Norway, through Brown University's Summer Program, and at writing conferences around the country including the Writer's Digest Annual Conference, the Mendocino Coast Writer's Conference, and many more. She is also a freelance manuscript editor, writing coach and teaches online classes. www.Jordanrosenfeld.net

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