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By James N. Frey

I am a film & television screenwriter grew to become hopeful novelist. i've got learn a number of books on writing novels, yet just a couple of have rather been as priceless as Mr. Frey's books. He covers all of the bases and offers you what you want to cross ahead with the necessities and peculiaralities of novel writing and novel publishing. All aces in my book.

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He woos her; she resists. It is difficult, but she finally says yes. That's the core of the story. The insistence (wooing) and resistance make it dramatic, but it is not as dramatic as it could be. This situation would tend towards melodrama because the central characters have no inner conflicts. So you start brainstorming for ideas to build inner conflict into your characters. You ask yourself, what if he is Zen Buddhist and takes his religion seriously, but she is not Zen, and his parents and his Zen community oppose the marriage?

THE TYRANNY OF THE PREMISE, OR, WRITING A STORY WITHOUT A PREMISE IS LIKE ROWING A BOAT WITHOUT OARS WHAT'S A PREMISE? • • Think of a premise as the love in a marriage. Think of a premise as the abracadabra that puts the rabbit into the hat. • Think of a premise as the steel in reinforced concrete. • Think of a premise as the E = mc2 of novel writing. It is all of the above and more. • It is the reason you are writing what you are writing. 5 0 H O W • • • T O W R I T E A D A M N G O O D N O V E L It is the point you have to prove.

Characters are in the crucible to stay if their motivation to continue in conflict is greater than their motivation to run away 3 4 H O W T O W R I T E A D A M N G O O D N O V E L from the conflict. " Say you want to write a novel about a man who hates his job; the screaming clients all want the work done yesterday, the boss is a lunatic, the pay is terrible, and the office is full of cigar smoke. The first question that would occur to a reader is, why doesn't this man quit? The character therefore must be bonded to the job.

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