Ever finish a story and walk around with it in your head for the rest of the month? Want that to be your reader’s experience of your story? A confusing ending, done well, might be the hook you need to keep readers thinking about, talking about, and wanting to read your book all over again.
Freytag’s Pyramid is an expanded version of Aristotle’s three-act model and breaks dramatic structure down into five distinct movements that, though written to apply only to classical and Shakespearean texts, can easily be applied to many more modern texts and put to use in your own writing.
What does it take to get knighted for your services to literature? For fantasy writer and satirist Sir Terry Pratchett, the answer is a body of work that also earned him the Carnegie Medal, the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy. Pratchett is …
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With his Western novel The Sisters Brothers currently enjoying a big screen adaptation and his ‘tragedy of manners’ French Exit beloved by the literary establishment, Patrick deWitt is both a proven author and one to watch.
