Plotting The Novel is an invaluable guide to the intricacies of plotting. Michael Legat discusses the essential elements of plotting in detail, pinpointing the origins of plots, and examining the way that characters affect their development, the part that sub-plots play, the need for twists and turns, the welding together of the various ingredients into a well constructed whole, and the value of advance planning. The emphasis throughout is on practical advice, based on the author's wide experience as a publisher, as the author of more than a dozen published books, and as a teacher of creative writing.
The book ends with a long chapter in which Michael Legat shows how he followed his his own precepts, step by step, in planning his first novel, and in a series of notes that the reader will find both fascinating and illuminating, points out frankly the mistakes that he made, and the changes that he found necessary.
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