what Veronica Roth's Divergent series can teach you about plot!
How not to. Divergent is terribly plotted. I'm sorry.
Actually, I've learned a lot by seeing how other writers screwed up - that's often easier to see and learn by than what other writers did right. But probably too liable to cause argument to be useful.
George R. R. Martin's early space opera stories taught me a lot about creating the sense that the world is much larger than what we're seeing via offhand mentions of events long past and cool-sounding places far away.
Louis Sachar's Holes can teach you the puzzle-box structure, in which a number of seemingly disparate stories assemble into a unified whole.
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Date: 2014-04-29 06:28 pm (UTC)How not to. Divergent is terribly plotted. I'm sorry.
Actually, I've learned a lot by seeing how other writers screwed up - that's often easier to see and learn by than what other writers did right. But probably too liable to cause argument to be useful.
George R. R. Martin's early space opera stories taught me a lot about creating the sense that the world is much larger than what we're seeing via offhand mentions of events long past and cool-sounding places far away.
Louis Sachar's Holes can teach you the puzzle-box structure, in which a number of seemingly disparate stories assemble into a unified whole.