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The irresistible novel, how to craft an extraordinary story that engages readers from start to finish, Jeff Gerke

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The irresistible novel, how to craft an extraordinary story that engages readers from start to finish, Jeff Gerke
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The irresistible novel
Oclc number
910570838
Responsibility statement
Jeff Gerke
Sub title
how to craft an extraordinary story that engages readers from start to finish
Summary
"Discover Your Voice and Enthrall Readers!The craft of writing is filled with various debates: Should I include a prologue? Should I delete all adverbs from my manuscript? Just how much backstory--if any--can I include in my story? These questions--and their often-contradictory answers--can cause confusion, frustration, and even paralysis in the writer."The Irresistible Novel" frees you from the limits of so-called "rules" and instead provides you with a singular goal: You must engage your readers from beginning to end,"--Amazon.com
Table Of Contents
Introduction -- Part One: Free Yourself From The Paralyzing Rules Of Fiction -- Chapter 1: Prologues -- Chapter 2: Description -- Chapter 3: -LY Adverbs -- Chapter 4: Purple Prose and Painted Paragraphs -- Chapter 5: The Immediate Inciting Incident -- Chapter 6: "To Be" Verbs -- Chapter 7: Show Versus Tell -- Chapter 8: Begin with Action -- Chapter 9: Point of View -- Chapter 10: Speech Attributions -- Chapter 11: Outlining -- Chapter 12: That -- Chapter 13: Switching Between Storylines -- Chapter 14: Floating Body Parts -- Chapter 15: Gerunds, Participial Phrases, Sentence Fragments, Beginning with Conjunctions, Ending with Prepositions, and Passive Voice -- Chapter 16: Breaking the Fourth Wall -- Chapter 17: Weasel Words -- Chapter 18: Read Everything -- Chapter 19: Elmore Leonard's Rules -- Chapter 20: The Big Enchilada -- Part Two: The Great Commandment of Fiction -- Chapter 21: Hacking Your Reader's Brain -- Chapter 22: Character Brain-Plot Brain -- Chapter 23: A Brain Chemistry Story map -- Chapter 24: What's It All About, Alfie? -- Part Three: The Brain's Greatest Hits -- Chapter 25: The Monomyth -- Chapter 26: Archetypes -- Chapter 27: Aristotle's Rhetoric -- Conclusion -- About the Author -- Index
Target audience
adult
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