Book Review - Rattus New Yorkus

Rats take over New York! Loved it! Fast paced from start to finish, and action that runs up your leg and bites you in the face. I'm putting a lock on that toilet lid now.

Get it Here - Rattus New Yorkus - Hunter Shea

 

We Want Poetry

We want poetry

Words arranged that kiss our souls

Soothe our aching hearts

 

Book Review - VOX by Christina Dalcher

Beautiful and terrifying, twist after nerve-wracking twist, Christina Dalcher weaves a story, through the pages, of a tongue-tied claustrophobic world, where even talking in your sleep could have you electrocuted. Jean McClellan, an eminent Neurolinguist, and every other woman and girl in America, is silenced by the ruling patriarchal Theocracy. 100 words a day, is all they get, then the word counting bracelet they’re forced to wear starts to deliver an electric shock. What lines will she cross to regain her freedom? What would you do to keep your freedom? Must stop talking now, no more words left. READ THIS! [100 words]
#100words #VOX

 VOX - The Gripping Debut

Book Review - Manifest Recall by Alan Baxter

Just finished reading Manifest Recall. Brilliant! @AlanBaxter had me hooked from page one. Dragged me along on a brutal journey of discovery and vengeance, a journey that would not stop gently. Could not put it down. Thoroughly recommend! Available here - AMAZON

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Closer

Just a little bit closer, every day. Keep pushing, keep having a stab at it.
Today's efforts were again aimed at Plot, this time at the "Five Key Plot Points".

1. INCITING INCIDENT
2. LOCK IN
3. FIRST CULMINATION (Mid-point Crisis)
4. MAIN CULMINATION (Main Climax)
5. THIRD ACT TWIST

From what I've been reading, and understanding ( 3 Awesome Plot Structures for Building Bestsellers ) , the Five Key Plot Points is a "Fichtean Curve" and links to Libbie Hawker's (Take Off Your Pants) guidelines on Pacing (Triangles, see my post of June 4th). Lots of crises in the rising action leading up to the climax, very short falling action.

Taking Libbie Hawker's advice, each of the little curves is a chapter, is problem-solution, which builds the pace - the difference between a book that you can't put down and one that you put down all too easily.

Shapeshifting

Yesterday I did mention things, shapeless things, threatening to break out. I managed to snatch one, something must've bumped into it from the other side, from inside the mist. It staggered out, disoriented, it tried to get back but no, we were too fast for it this time. Fire a few nets over the top, run a few ropes round the legs, bring it crashing down. Only problem, every time you look at it it starts to change. We do have a man with a big stick, says he's going to have words with it, see if we can't get this story to decide what it wants to be. Might have to have Pirates involved, no swashbuckling, just nasty armed thieving bastards on boats.

Something is Hatching

Pigeon War happening overhead. I chuck bird seed onto the roof of my shed. A while after I enter the Shed of Doom and close the door, you will start to hear the odd dull thud as a Wood Pigeon graces the Avian land of milk and honey above. I really should put a camera up there, it never takes too long and it turns into the lunch-time matinee at the Colosseum. The scrabbling about, flapping, more thuds (sharper this time, heck knows what these guys are packing), lots of kerfuffle and then all of a sudden everyone legs it. I guess someone won.
Well, in spite of the feathered frenzy overhead I managed to chew through a bit more of the Ninja Writer's/Shaunta's Plotting Workshop.
And something is starting to take shape, shapeless movements threaten to break out, pushing the edge out and then slipping away again. Doesn't look like it's going to be a horror story at the moment. No, that's called Editing.
More fun tomorrow.