author: heather leach

... James N. Frey (1988) How to Write a Damn Good Novel (London: Macmillan). For all that it has a tacky title, this is a very helpful book. It's a particular kind of novel that he theorises, the dramatic novel. Frey covers much of the ...

... plots - Christopher Vogler's The Writer's Journey , for example - or which put forward the theory that there are only so many plots in the world and each new story is merely a recycling of one of these ( Christopher Booker's The Seven Basic ...