Notes from Lecture #4 wsff
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How long for the introduction?
- Probably depends on your audience and how much they trust you
- Generally shorter than you want it to be
- Don’t waste the reader’s time
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How to find Plot Archetypes
- Watch movies and read books with an eye on the plot
- Maybe take notes and explain what the scene does for the story not what it actually does on the page
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How to nest plots
- Understand the character’s motivations. Make this clear for the reader
- Make the right promises
- Make the relevant progress
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Subverting Expectations
- Not a virtue onto itself
- Example: there’s a book that is 3/4 epic fantasy and then twists everything at the 3/4 mark
- If you wanted a classic story and then it turns everything on it’s head, then this is most likely not what you wanted
- Also, if you are looking for those twists you are bored for the first 3/4 of the book
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Is there always a twist?
- No an escalation can replace a twist
- Twists should be satisfying