Mellors’ own recipe for plot formulation in literary fiction is: characters x time = change. She explains that the mechanism offers a valuable structure for visualizing the engine of a novel.

The Four Undramatic Plot Structures. By Tom Gauld. January 16, 2015. Save this story Save this ... The artist Tom Gauld on the four undramatic plot structures of a book.

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Plotting the Novel: While your characters are the beating heart of your novel, your plot is its bones. Whether you are an outliner or someone who works on the fly, this basic architecture (the ...

For instance, this article in London's Telegraph reports that some novelists who hope to sell a lot of Kindle books are constructing their plots so that a major cliffhanger occurs about 10% of the ...

Book review: Plot structure keeps intrigue rolling along. It’s a common sentiment that the best friends are old friends. But it’s also the terrible flaw in the long comradeship among four 30- ...

Ben Lerner's debut novel, Leaving the Atocha Station is one of the most compelling books about nothing I've ever read. Ordinarily, I'm not a fan of this kind of spinning-one's-wheels-in-the-sand ...