contents

read Lehane's work: Mystic River

acknowledgements

excerpt references

  1. Scene & Structure (Elements of Fiction Writing),Jack M. Bickham
  2. Making a Scene: A Guide for Fiction Writers, Brett Spencer
  3. The Craft of Scene Writing – Beat by Beat, Jim Mercurio
  4. Conflict and Suspense(Elements of Fiction Writing), James Scott Bell
  5. Write Your Novel From The Middle- Book 1, Bell
  6. How to Write Dazzling Dialogue: Book 2, Bell
  7. Super Structure: The Key to Unleashing the Power of Story Book 3, Bell
  8. TheAnatomy of Story: 22 Steps, John Trudy
  9. Save the Cat! Writes a Novel, Jessica Brody
  10. Save the Cat! Goes to the Indies, Salvio Rubio
  11. Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting, Robert McKee
  12. Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action, Robert McKee
  13. The Fire in Fiction: Passion, Purpose and Techniques to Make Your Novel Great,Donald Maass
  14. The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface
  15. The motion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide To Character Expression, Becca Puglisi
  16. Techniques of the Selling Writer, Dwight Swain

reference data annex and toc

These study notes are provided as part of an intended Non-profit, educational, and scholarly effort of limited public distribution. Excerpts are a small proportion of the sourced original texts and readers are urged to use the available end note references to consult the original works, the excerpts are transformative in that they are provided together with comparative sources, novel, original analysis, commentary, and in application to the novel Mystic River.

About the author

Edward Stetson is an occasional student of style, logic, and literature.

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