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    Forms of the Plot

    Literary theorist Norm Friedman offered incredible new ways to think about and categorize plots. His work can help writers better...
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    Literary Theory and Your Novel

    The principles of literary theory help writers tell better stories. Here is a presentation where I discuss key concepts in literary...
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    Aristotle and Hurston

    Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is a perfect example of Aristotle's dramatic structure. Here are my notes on how...
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    Character in Crisis

    Using the famous "5 Stages of Grief" as his model, Editor Shawn Coyne develops a theory of character that helps the writer deliver...
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    The Old Man and the Novel

    Hemingway on writing and the writing life. Here he is in his own immortal words.
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    The Poetic Arts

    Horace writes a book on craft disguised as a poem. His poem, Ars Poetica, is a classic of literary criticism and became the key text for...
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    Glendavid Glen Mamet

    David Mamet discusses the fundamentals of story and gets right down to the most essential, most profound elements of writing forceful...
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    Her Room of Masterpieces

    In Virginia Woolf's essay A Room of One's Own she analyzes classic books written by women and discusses what it means to be a female...
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    On the Sublime

    This ancient text on story lays out what aesthetics are and why the writer must rely on them. Here are my notes on Longinus's brilliant...
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    Metaphor

    The great theorist Cleanth Brooks says writers can only step into the universal by going through the narrow door of the particular. Here...