Mastering Plot Twists: How to Use Suspense, Targeted Storytelling Strategies, and Structure to Captivate Your Readers - Softcover

Cleland, Jane K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 144035233X ISBN 13: 9781440352331

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2018

Synopsis

Structure Your Plot to Surprise and Satisfy Readers!

Plot twists are a unique element of the craft of writing used by writers of all genres--from memoirs to thrillers, screenplays to stageplays--to create unexpected twists and turns. A surprising plot twist can hook an audience and keep readers turning pages, right down to the final scene.

Mastering Plots Twists is your essential guide to crafting a quick pace with more focused narrative and action, all by using the artful, unexpected plot twist. The result is more nuanced, multifaceted books that sell and develop a devoted readership.
Using similar structure and techniques as the Agatha Award-winning Mastering Suspense, Structure, & Plot, award-winning author Jane K. Cleland will teach you to integrate thrilling moments in every genre. Inside, Cleland will show you how to:

• Use plotting, structure, pacing, and subplots with the intention of developing plausible, yet surprising, twists.
• Integrate plot twists into any story―not just mysteries and thrillers.
• Study novels of any genre, to recognize the specific techniques writers use to surprise their readers.
• Improve your writing craft with scores of cases studies, checklists, decision-making models, and exercises.

Packed with pages of usable, hands-on material, Mastering Plot Twists is the key to engaging your readers throughout your narrative.

About this title

About the Author

Jane K. Cleland is the author of the best-selling and multiple award-wining Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries (St. Martin's Minotaur).
Jane also writes short stories (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine) and articles and books about the craft of writing (Writer's Digest magazine and Writer's Digest Books), including the bestselling and Agatha-winning book,Mastering Suspense, Structure, & Plot.
Jane is the chair of the Black Orchid Novella Award (www.nerowolfe.org), a mentor in Western Connecticut State University's MFA in Creative & Professional Writing program, a guest author at universities and writing conferences across the country, and a member of the fulltime faculty at Lehman College, part of the City University of New York, where she is also the director of the Program for Professional Communications. In addition, Jane was the president of the New York chapter of Mystery Writers of America and a member of the national board. More information is available at www.janecleland.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 144035233X
• ISBN 13: 9781440352331
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240