Full name: Goal, Motivation and Conflict: The Building Blocks of Good Fiction

Author: Debra Dixon Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Contemporary, Romance Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780965437103 0965437108

Goal, motivation, and conflict are the foundation of everything that happens in the story world. Using charts, examples, and movies, the author breaks these key elements down into understandable components and walks the reader through the process of laying this foundation in his or her own work.Learn what causes sagging middles and how to fix them, which goals are important, which aren’t and why, how to get your characters to do what they need for your plot in a believable manner, and how to use conflict to create a good story. GMC can be used not only in plotting, but in character development, sharpening scenes, pitching ideas to an editor, and evaluating whether an idea will work.Be confident your ideas will work before you write 200 pages.Plan a road map to keep your story on track.Discovery why your scenes aren’t working and what to do about it.Create characters that editors and readers will care about. Similar books: Your First Novel by Ann Rittenberg Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schmidt How to Be a Writer by Barbara Baig Building Better Plots by Robert Kernen Hooked by Les Edgerton The Joy of Writing Sex by Elizabeth Benedict Dialogue by Gloria Kempton Creating Character Arcs by K. M. Weiland Plot Versus Character by Jeff Gerke Writing Fiction For Dummies by Randy Ingermanson Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint by Nancy Kress 45 Master Characters by Victoria Lynn Schmidt The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines by Tami D. Cowden Creating Character Emotions by Ann Hood Scene and Structure by Jack M. Bickham It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Archer's Voice by Mia Sheridan One Day by David Nicholls The Choice by Nicholas Sparks