Honor For All...
#2: Jan 7th 2013 at 7:57:07 PM
This seems like it would work for short stories, I may try it out the next time I write one.
Some people think I'm strange. I think it's sad that they can't see all the awesome stuff going on in my head right now.
Crazy Kiwi
#3: Jan 7th 2013 at 10:57:13 PM
It raises some good points for making the story stays on track and, due to following links in it, it spawned almost as many tabs as an average session on TV Tropes or Cracked.com as I kept opening link after link after link of useful information from both Janice and Jami.
It led me to posts about switching between action, exposition, dialogue, internalisation etc every two paragraphs and colour-coding and the EDITS system and Voice, POV and infodumping.
All very useful.
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Originally the people behind South Park talked about this technique, although I'm using Janice Hardy's article
.
Basically, you outline a story by using the words "but and therefore/so", to make there's a cause-and-effect progression going on.
Here's an example of how I apply it to Manifestation Files's 1st Act and the beginning of the 2nd Act.
In the morning, Bryan’s even more ignited and he confronts Finn and Mom about why he passed out. Finn explains some of the situation, but his evasiveness leaves Bryan feeling like he isn’t being trusted. So Mom tries to explain that Finn hasn’t been trustworthy to her either, but this just leaves Bryan as suspicious, and they have to go to school. So they go to school, but Bryan’s observer powers start kicking in with flu-like syndromes...
And so on. Personally, it's working out for me, although it probably doesn't apply to a story that's meant to be spacious in nature, although I'm reading a book that lacks this kind of progression, resulting in what seems like Filler.
What do you think?
edited 6th Jan '13 2:59:31 PM by chihuahua0