Writing Vivid Plots: Professional Techniques for Fiction Authors (Writer's Craft) (Volume 20)

Do you want to give your novel a powerful story line? Do you want to power up a draft you’ve written? This guide shows professional techniques for developing and structuring your fiction book. It solves plot problems such as slow beginnings, sagging middles and flat endings, and guides you to write specific story parts such as the ‘Black Moment’ and the ‘Climax’. The focus of this guide is on plotting full-length novels, but there are also chapters on plotting short stories, series and serials.