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Has anyone read this book? I ordered it because it sounded interesting. Anyone tried his technique?
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Read it the other day and was quite pleased with it. I'm giving it a go at the moment, but if nothing else it's made me think of and approach the middle in a different way than usual.
I haven't read that one, but I did read his book 'Plot and Structure' which I found to be well worth the time. He wrote about a plotting formula that he called the LOCK system; I summarised it in a blog post if you want to check it out http://endofthegame.net/2011/10/20/plotconstruction/
Will check out the book you mentioned.
It also felt curiously personal to Bell in places, which added to my impression that it was written quickly, and without much thought to giving it a widely-applicable, coherent purpose: the section titled, "A love triangle" stood out, reading to me as a slightly patronising scolding along the lines of, "Now, I hope you see why we don't need to put in those icky body parts in a sex scene", as if it were always gratuitous, without any acknowledgement that an author might deliberately make that writing choice because it was the absolute best thing for their story.