Writing Fiction for Dummies by Peter Economy; Randy Ingermanson

Author:Peter Economy; Randy Ingermanson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Writing, Amazon.com
ISBN: 0470530707
Publisher: For Dummies
Published: 2009-01-01T15:00:00+00:00

Scene structure in Patriot Games

Now look at a much faster-paced example from a thriller, Patriot Games, written by Tom Clancy. The lead character is Jack Ryan, a history professor at the Naval Academy in Annapolis.

Recommended reading

Here are some books we recommend for further reading on these middle layers of story structure:

Story, by Robert McKee: McKee is a famous teacher of screenwriting, and his book Story is a classic. (He and his book play a role in the movie Adaptation, starring Nicolas Cage.) This is an advanced book, which we recommend here mainly because of McKee's discussion of sequences of scenes. Although McKee doesn't say explicitly that each paragraph of your synopsis should summarize a sequence of scenes, we got this idea after reading his work. We believe he has highlighted this particular level of story structure better than anyone else has.

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