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Month: December 2017

Plot vs. Chronology: What’s the Difference?

Plot vs. Chronology: What’s the Difference?

The calendar is ending! We are all doomed! My middle-grade fantasy, Finders Keepers, turns partly on the struggle to avert a disaster that will occur when the calendar changes to the year 4000. As the story approaches New Year’s Eve, 3999, a plague kills more and more people, earthquakes swallow buildings, and floods threaten to drown the city. All will be lost unless the book’s 12-year-old hero, Cade, is willing to risk his own well-being to save everyone else. I got…

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The value of subtext and how to achieve it

The value of subtext and how to achieve it

Lately I’ve been musing on subtext, the things that aren’t explicitly in a text and yet are present by implication. Readers and movie goers like subtext because it allows them to speculate and thus involve themselves in the storytelling. They like it so much that Hollywood has a saying that if the scene is about what the scene is about, you’re in trouble. For a long time, subtext was a mystery to me, mostly because I can’t shake off the…

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