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Hamilton on emphasis in narrative: eleven questions to ask of your own story
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For fiction writers and screenwriters who want to check how their own draft handles emphasis. It turns one chapter of Clayton Hamilton's 1908 book into eleven questions on position, proportion, repetition, contrast, climax, surprise and suspense. It is a period text and the questions are untested curator analysis.
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Hamilton on emphasis in narrative: eleven questions to ask of your own story
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For fiction writers and screenwriters who want to check how their own draft handles emphasis. It turns one chapter of Clayton Hamilton's 1908 book into eleven questions on position, proportion, repetition, contrast, climax, surprise and suspense. It is a period text and the questions are untested curator analysis.
Useful starting points
- Check what the last paragraph of each chapter emphasizes before changing anything else.
- Rank your scenes by importance and compare with their order; a very striking scene too early can flatten what follows.
- Suspense only pays off if the reader gets what they were made to wait for.
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