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How do you visualize plot structure? I want to visualize the internal structure of my plot. I noticed several contradictions, and want to better understand what's going on in my tale. I'm not talking about different characters doing parallel stuff in different places. My plot has one single chronological thread. What I want to visualiz... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #10407 | Imported from external source | — | almost 11 years ago |
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Genre conventions: Which end do readers expect? I need help with the concept of my story: My protagonists live in a mild dystopia. Think of your own country today ;-) They have the opportunity to kill about 20 persons, which will cause a fundamental change in their society that makes life much better for everyone. Imagine the effect being similar... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #10347 | Imported from external source | — | almost 11 years ago |
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Do UK or US based literary agents accept (unpublished) manuscripts in a foreign language? Do UK or US based literary agents accept (unpublished) manuscripts in a foreign language? For example the author could provide a rough translation of the whole text and himself pay for a literary translation of the first pages, so the agent could judge the story as well as the writing. Is such a th... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #10346 | Imported from external source | — | almost 11 years ago |
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A: Is it OK to have two different POVs in a same paragraph (third-person omniscient narrator)? When I studied linguistics, I took a seminar on text linguistics. In that seminar, we learned about paragraph markers. Written text is not always visually structured in accordance with linguistic paragraph markers, of course. Often readability and layout concerns have an equal weight. But lets push t... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #10344 | Imported from external source | — | almost 11 years ago |
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How to distill a plot into a logline? A logline is a one to three sentence summary of a story, used to pitch a script to producers and other buyers. It should contain: - the protagonist - the goal of the protagonist - the antagonist - the stakes of failure Obviously the logline must hook the audience of prospective buyers by - irony ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #10326 | Imported from external source | — | almost 11 years ago |
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