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Re: Rowling's book a year
Hey Uncle Jim,
I liked your Fire Door Theory of Novels, but I got a different view on the last part.
You wrote, "Our hero wanders more, finds a friend who knows where there's a show he'd really like, loans him money and dry socks, and together they sit down in another really good movie just as the opening titles start.
That's the climax of your book."
If what the hero wanted is a romance, or a home, then yeah, cuddling up in a new life with dry socks is the climax.
But if it's more of an action novel, perhaps it'd go something like this:
...and together they sit down in another really good movie just as the opening titles start.
Then the guy who was pestering the hero so much in the first movie shows up and tries to weasle in on the hero's date (or at least his popcorn), and a fight ensues in which the hero triumphantly turns the projector into a projectile.
That's the climax of the book, and then the hero and new friend head to her apartment to cuddle up before a DVD player.
And hey Beth, welcome! Nurses are the unsung mothers of the world.
Hey Uncle Jim,
I liked your Fire Door Theory of Novels, but I got a different view on the last part.
You wrote, "Our hero wanders more, finds a friend who knows where there's a show he'd really like, loans him money and dry socks, and together they sit down in another really good movie just as the opening titles start.
That's the climax of your book."
If what the hero wanted is a romance, or a home, then yeah, cuddling up in a new life with dry socks is the climax.
But if it's more of an action novel, perhaps it'd go something like this:
...and together they sit down in another really good movie just as the opening titles start.
Then the guy who was pestering the hero so much in the first movie shows up and tries to weasle in on the hero's date (or at least his popcorn), and a fight ensues in which the hero triumphantly turns the projector into a projectile.
That's the climax of the book, and then the hero and new friend head to her apartment to cuddle up before a DVD player.
And hey Beth, welcome! Nurses are the unsung mothers of the world.