Difference between revisions of "Beating the Story by Robin D. Laws"
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==Editing and Giving Notes== | ==Editing and Giving Notes== | ||
| + | ===Facilitator or Client?=== | ||
| + | ===And Now for the Caveats=== | ||
| + | ===Getting Started=== | ||
| + | ===Identifying the Groundwork=== | ||
| + | ===Mapping the Writer's Beats=== | ||
| + | ===Using the Map=== | ||
| + | ===What You Really Mean When You Give Frustrating Notes=== | ||
| + | ===Making Requests that Stick=== | ||
| + | ===Classroom Use=== | ||
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==Beat Analysis== | ==Beat Analysis== | ||
==Now, Over To You== | ==Now, Over To You== | ||
==Inspiration to Premise Worksheet== | ==Inspiration to Premise Worksheet== | ||
==Beat Mapping Quick Reference== | ==Beat Mapping Quick Reference== | ||
Revision as of 20:45, 29 January 2021
Contents
- 1 How to Pretend You've Read This Book (introduction)
- 2 Foreword
- 3 Prologue
- 4 Conceiving Your Story
- 4.1 The Random Actor Method: An Idea Springboard
- 4.2 Turning Inspiration into Premise
- 4.2.1 Throughline
- 4.2.2 Core Question
- 4.2.3 Protagonist Type
- 4.2.4 Procedural Heroes
- 4.2.5 Dramatic Characters
- 4.2.6 Supporting Characters
- 4.2.7 Transformational Supporting Characters
- 4.2.8 Thematic Opposition
- 4.2.9 Genre and Expectation
- 5 The Building Blocks of Narrative
- 6 Laying the Groundwork
- 7 Mapping Your Story
- 7.1 Your Opener
- 7.2 And Now For The Map Part
- 7.3 Building Incidents As You Map
- 7.4 Noting Transitions
- 7.5 Your Sequence of Events
- 7.6 Placing Exposition
- 7.7 Goal Shifts and Wavering Protagonists
- 7.8 Your Closer
- 7.9 Reviewing Your Completed Map
- 7.10 Thread Mapping
- 7.11 From Map to Prose Outline
- 8 First Draft
- 9 Revision
- 10 Editing and Giving Notes
- 11 Beat Analysis
- 12 Now, Over To You
- 13 Inspiration to Premise Worksheet
- 14 Beat Mapping Quick Reference
