Posted by Victoria in Genre, Writing Techniques
Growing up I was a huge fan of Agatha Christie and Nancy Drew novels. Solving a mystery always added an interactive element to reading these books that I really enjoyed. Lately many bestselling novels have elements of mystery within them regardless of genre. Mystery seems to really be selling again (not like it ever really stopped).
Now as a writer I have gone back to the mystery story and started
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Posted by Victoria in Genre, Plot, Story
For centuries now we have been told that one must have a clear cut beginning middle and end to a story and that to ignore basic Westernized structure (per Aristotle) is the kiss of death... But where does this leave non Westernized writers? Where does this leave other cultures who value different types of stories and expressions?
I write about this briefly in my new book Story Structure Architect
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