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Writing Science Fiction: Plotting & Endings
Plotting
The plot thickens (1:00)
Character is plot and plot is character
Down to basics
Read: A Gift From The Culture
Raised questions
Exercise #1: Plot a story
Unearthing fossils
Beginning
Ways of beginning
Read: The Power
Exercise #2: Picking your beginning
Scenes and how to make them add to your story
How would you make the scene more dramatic?
The key to great scenes
Write, don't think
Exercise #3: Write a scene
Exercise #4: Examine a scene
Halftime Quiz
Rewriting, Redrafting and Off Into the Void
Don't leave the house in your underwear (1:06)
The Ten Commandments of Writing
Exercise #5: What makes a good novel?
Mr Ten Per Cent
Interlude: Point of View Revisited
Being in control of your material – point of view continued
Dialogue - What are you talking about?
More on subtext and dialogue
Exercise #6: Rewrite
Endings
Examples of endings
Frequent Out of this World Questions
And in the end (0:42)
Exercise #5: What makes a good novel?
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