Crafting Your Plot: A 60-Minute Masterclass
About this ebook
‘Crafting Your Plot’ is a masterclass in developing the plot for your novel. It provides expert advice on how to blend the ingredients of your story together to create a book that will hook the reader. Clear and practical with instruction, analysis, discussion points and exercises, it will show you the way to plot perfection. All in an hour.
‘Crafting Your Plot’ covers:
+ The balance between your main plot and subplots
+ Creating tight knots of incident and motivation
+ How new action begins to unravel those knots
+ Managing delay without losing focus
+ Revealing your main characters through action
+ Interconnections with your secondary characters
+ How minor characters enrich your imaginary world
+ Using character to intensify and complicate your plot
+ Understanding the final crescendo
+ Resolving all your plotlines in a unifying climax
60-Minute Masterclasses are expert ebooks that help you do more with your creative writing, journalism and entrepreneurship. Locking on to the stuff that you actually need to know, each title is a precise, practical pointer on the matters that matter most.
About the author
Greg Mosse’s creative writing teaching is based around the development of craft skills – well-judged sentences, paragraphs, episodes and chapters are the building blocks of good novels. He was programme leader for creative writing at West Dean College where he taught his own MA degree, validated by University of Sussex, and a wide range of short courses. He curates and teaches the Southbank Centre Creative Writing School and works in story development and consultancy for stage and screen. His knowledge of his subject comes from more than 20 years’ professional experience as teacher, editor, translator and writer.
