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Martha Alderson & Jordan Rosenfeld, Writing Deep Scenes

Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 7:00pm

Join us for a book talk and discussion on plot and writing advice from two expert writing coaches at our book launch event celebrating Writing Deep Scenes.

Writing Deep Scenes teaches you how to write strong, layered, and engaging scenes—the key to memorable, page-turning plots. It’s filled with practical tools for building layers and nuance into your scenes, employing the right scene types at the right junctures in the story, and developing a profound understanding of how plot and scene intertwine.

Using contemporary scene examples from a variety of genres, Writing Deep Scenes provides an integrated understanding of how to plot at the scene level and take your writing to new depths.

Readers will learn:

  • How scenes are comprised of three key layers: Action, Emotion and Theme
  • How to recognize each layer separately and how each contributes to the whole
  • How to create these layers by utilizing the concepts of “shadow” and “light”
  • How to develop an intricate relationship between the emotion plot and action plot in every single scene
  • How thematic imagery embedded in scenes increases a story’s tension and readability and contributes to the story’s meaning

Martha Alderson is a plot consultant whose clients include bestselling authors, editors, and Hollywood movie directors. Also known as the Plot Whisperer, she deconstructs plot in her Plot Whisperer series of writing resources: The Plot Whisperer, The Plot Whisperer Book of Writing Prompts, The Plot Whisperer Workbook, and Blockbuster Plots Pure & Simple.

Jordan Rosenfeld is an editor, writing coach, and the author of Make a Scene, Write Free (with Rebecca Lawton), and the novel Forged in Grace. She is a former contributing editor to Writer’s Digest magazine and has been published in Publishers Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Writer magazine, The Rumpus, and many other publications.

Writing Deep Scenes: Plotting Your Story Through Action, Emotion, and Theme By Martha Alderson, Jordan Rosenfeld Cover Image
$24.00
ISBN: 9781599638836
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Writer's Digest Books - October 2nd, 2015