San Antonio College Library

From the literary agent and author of the bestselling "The First Five Pages" comes a groundbreaking new book on plot development. As a literary agent, Noah Lukeman hears thousands of book pitches a year. Often the stories sound great in concept, but never live up to their potential on the page. The Plot Thickens analyzes the classic elements of storytelling, showing beginning and advanced writers alike how to implement the fundamentals of successful...

Presents tips and guidelines to writing effectively for publication, providing examples of proper character development, plot structure, and prose style, and includes techniques on editing and marketing the finished manuscript.

By his great knowledge of Elizabethan London and a lifetime's practical experience of the theatre Martin Holmes has opened the way for a fresh approach to Shakespeare. He shows how the plays have been stifled by centuries of uncritical worship and how much can be brought to life by looking at the way Shakespeare achieved his effects. He explains Shakespeare's stage devices: the use of suggestion with small resources; the balance of voices, personal...

Robert L. Belknap's theory of plot illustrates the active and passive roles literature plays in creating its own dynamic reading experience. Literary narrative enchants us through its development of plot, but plot tells its own story about the making of narrative, revealing through its structures, preoccupations, and strategies of representation critical details about how and when a work came into being. Through a rich reading of Shakespeare's King...

Take a peek inside this book and you'll find some characters (though they're still a bit sketchy). They'll be perplexed to see you, so they'll quickly try to track down their author (who has a lot more work to do). What you won't find is a story, or a title, because, guess what? The book isn't finished yet! But surely the author must have a story to tell? In this charming "meta" picture book, children of all ages are encouraged to interact with a...

"Once in a book by Mordecai Gerstein ... there lived a family of characters." This is the tale of one little girl's search for her own story.