This text is mainly a mere compilation of study notes from various sources, referenced, and linked in the end notes, on the subject of Fiction writing, with an emphasis on Scene, Story, and Structure. Besides this note survey, we also provide a novel data annex of style metrics of the novel by Dennis Lehane, Mystic River , with links to the relevant scenes. We apply the surveyed comparative notes on scene, structure, style, and beats (MRUs) to several examples of Lehane's work.
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.