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Ksenia Anske

August 24, 2016

Novel structure: from WORD to SENTENCE to BEAT to SCENE to ACT

by Ksenia Anske


Illustration by Crystal Zapata

Illustration by Crystal Zapata

Illustration by Crystal Zapata

Illustration by Crystal Zapata

What I'm about to tell you will sound insane. I ask you to put your sanity aside and join me on a wild ride. Of math. Yes, math. I know. I hate it too. But I love a certain type of math that helps me not think about math when I'm writing a novel. And hell, who knows, maybe I'm a closet mathematician who decided to become a novelist just to spite the mathematician. I better stop. This is starting to turn into a story.

What I'm about to tell you is very simple. It's so simple, you will probably hate me. Join the club. I hate myself too. For not seeing this earlier. For not knowing. A very simple truth.

Any novel can be broken down to pieces that start from a word and end with the novel itself. Right. You heard this before. But wait. There is more. Any novel can be written easily according to how those pieces function IF YOU STICK WITH THEIR FUNCTION.

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TAGS: I'm actually glad, I took the time to type this out, You should see my desk, it's riddled with sticky notes, I have sticky notes coming out of my ears, Now that I have it all in a post, I will refer to it, YOU'RE WELCOME