C. S. Lakin

All Joran wanted was to live a peaceful life as a blacksmith in his forested village of Tebron. But when his wife, Charris, is captured by the Moon in a whisk of magic, he must go on a grueling journey to the four corners of the world to rescue her. On his way, he befriends a wolf named Ruyah who becomes a trusted companion while he solves riddles and eventually battles the Moon to save his wife.

The Wolf of Tebron

Layer your novel to success with this innovative, simple technique! Writing a terrific novel is a complex endeavor. And while there are hundreds of books, podcasts, and blog posts that teach aspiring authors how to structure scenes and plot out a solid story, none implement the most intuitive and effective method for success. What is that method? Layering. Novels are made up of dozens of scenes, and regardless of genre, time-tested structure dictates what key scenes are needed and where. Most writers are familiar with some of those scenes: the Inciting Incident, the Midpoint, and the Climax, to name a few. But novelists need more than a few landmarks to find their way across the tricky terrain of novel plotting. They need a surefire method to organizing all their scenes. In Layer Your Novel, you'll be introduced to an innovative, intuitive method for arranging your scenes and crafting a beautifully structured story. First, you construct the ten most important scenes as a foundation. From there, you choose from one of three methods to craft a second layer of scenes: the action-reaction layer, the subplot layer, or the romance layer. Once your second layer is integrated, next comes the third layer: the processing scenes that the glue your plot together. In Layer Your Novel, you'll learn: What the 5 major turning points are and where they're placed in your novel How to know exactly where to start your story and how to set up your premise What the ten key scenes are that serve as the framework for your novel What pinch points are and why you need them How to craft those essential twists and where they're placed in your story for greatest impact Why your protagonist's goal is the key to great storytelling How to come up with a meaningful subplot that will showcase your story's themes How a romance novel is structured and how to plot out the romance story line How to analyze best sellers in your genre to identify and learn from the layers evident in their plots How to apply this layering method to novellas Special bonus analyses! In Layer Your Novel, you'll dig into deconstructions of best-selling novels across genres to see how successful authors have their key scenes in all the right places, which gives credence to this practical layering method. In contrast, examples of best sellers are dissected to show the structural flaws due to the lack of the needed foundational framework that this layering method advocates. Don't guess what scenes you need in your novel. Don't guess where your scenes go. Guessing usually leads to novel failure. With the method you'll learn in Layer Your Novel, you'll guess no more. You can write terrific novels, every time, if you layer your novel following this blueprint!

The Innovative Method for Plotting Your Scenes

Layer Your Novel

The Map across Time, a sweeping epic of unfailing love and trust.

A Fairy Tale

The Map Across Time

The backward village of Wentwater is unraveling, one word at a time, and neither the wise men in the heights nor the superstitious villagers can undo the spell gone awry. Teralyn, who only wants to play her music with the young man she loves, becomes entangled in prophecy and destiny when she learns she is the one foretold to cause the undoing of Wentwater, and only by stitching every word back into existence can she save everyone she loves.

The Unraveling of Wentwater

When Pythius, the wicked young king of Paladya, learns of the hidden realm of Elysiel and the crystal scepter that protects that northern land, he journeys to kill the Keeper and steal the scepter. But his defiant act unleashes a terrible curse, and the Seer foretells his death one day at the hand of his son, now a newborn babe. To thwart the prophecy, he attempts to murder his child, but the queen escapes and sends the babe off in a trunk across the sea, where he is found and raised by a humble fisherman. Years later, Perthin, the cast-off babe now grown, hears his call of destiny, and is visited by a specter who tells him of the land of Elysiel and of the Gorgon--the evil creature fomenting war in the Northern Wastes. Perthin's village of Tolpuddle is being ravaged by a monstrous sea beast sent by this enemy, and Perthin accepts the challenge to kill the creature by cutting off its head--although anyone who looks upon it turns to stone. Armed with magical shoes and a legendary sword, Perthin arrives in Elysiel, where the trolls lead him to the ice cavern where the sacred site made of crystal slabs awaits him to show him his future. Perthin feels a strange connection to this land, unaware that he is the heir to Elysiel's throne. With the help of heaven's army, Perthin bests the enemy and returns to stop the sea monster as the beast is ravaging the kingdom of Paladya. He rescues the princess, who has been set out in the harbor as a sacrifice for the beast, and then stops the sea monster by exposing it to the Gorgon's head, yet through his heroic efforts he unknowingly fulfills the prophecy foretold by the Seer. He returns to Tolpuddle a hero, where many surprising revelations await him as to his heritage and legacy, for he learns he is not truly a fisherman's son but a king foretold. The Crystal Scepter is an adventurous retelling of the classic story of Perseus and Medusa with a twist, as the heart of the story involves the gates of heaven--the sacred sites erected by heaven to prevent evil from taking over the world of mankind. It also has parallels to the story or Oedipus Rex, the 17th-century play by Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca entitled Life is a Dream, and Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.

The Crystal Scepter

Want to write a visually powerful novel? Shoot Your Novel takes an in-depth look at cinematic technique for fiction writers. No other writing craft book teaches you the secret of how to "show, don't tell." Best-selling authors of every genre know the secret to hooking readers--by showing, not telling, their story. But writers are not taught how to "show" scenes in a cinematic way. Without a clear, concise, and precise method for constructing dynamic scenes, a writer will likely end up with a flat, lifeless novel.Filmmakers, screenwriters, and movie directors utilize cinematic technique to create visual masterpieces, and novelists can too--by adapting their methods in their fiction writing. By "shooting" your novel, you can supercharge your story!Inside, you'll learn: * The real secret to "show, don't tell" and how it's all about "the moment" * More than a dozen "camera shots" novelists can borrow from screenwriters and directors to create powerful, active scenes * Instruction on how to piece camera shots together to create cinematic scene segments * Examples from novels and screenplays showcasing each facet of cinematic technique * How to devise a thematic image system of key shots, motifs, and images * Ways to use colors, shapes, sounds, and angles for purposeful subliminal effect Shooting your novel with a filmmaker's eye will transform your good novel into a great one and will change forever the way you approach constructing your scenes. No other book gives you such deep, thorough instruction in cinematic technique for fiction writing. Here's what some best writing instructors and best-selling authors have to say about this essential writing craft book: "With such an extensive amount of experience in the screenwriting and filmmaking process, it comes as no surprise that C. S .Lakin writes with a trustworthy authority and wealth of insight when it comes to the craft of building dynamic scenes within novels.

Cinematic Techniques to Supercharge Your Writing

Shoot Your Novel

In the near future, a desperate race for new sources of energy pushes Bria Harrison's mother--Nobel Prize-winning scientist--to experiment with unstable compounds to harness dark energy. The result is disastrous . . . Bria refuses to believe her mother is dead, even though dust chokes the site where the top-secret laboratory once stood. A strange symbol keeps showing up: on the dry erase board, in a pile of leaves, even in the milk her brother drips on the table. Bria has no doubt her mother, somehow, is sending her a message. But how? And where could she be? To find out, she has to do something dangerous, but she sees no other option. While re-creating her mother's last experiment in her basement, Bria, her autistic brother Dylan, and four friends cause a rip in time-space--and out of the resultant black hole tumbles K-Six, a time sniffer who has come to get them. This doglike alien creature takes them back through the rip to his training world, where Bria, her brother, and her friends must be altered to adapt to dangerous time confluences and worlds they must traverse to save the scientists trapped in a time eddy. If they aren't rescued soon, dark energy, now streaming into the galaxy at an alarming rate, will cause horrific destruction--including the end of all life on earth. Bria, drawn to the brooding Jace Riggs, has no time to fall in love. But the universe doesn't spin on logic, and though Bria can't afford any distractions in her attempt to rescue her mother, she also can't ignore her heart. But it's her heart that risks losing everyone she loves as she undertakes an utterly impossible mission. Yet what other choice does she have? "We cannot explain to you, of a shadow world, how existence behaves. You look far out at your stars in the night and think you are looking over a distance, a distance that has no end. Doesn't that seem absurd? You are looking backward in time. We say, all space is here; all time is now. That is the true nature of existence, but your species can only see shadows and illusions." Don't miss this intense, deep time-travel story about love, faith, and perseverance in the light of great danger and impossibilities! Read what others have said about Time Sniffers: "Time Sniffers is a funny, futurist tale of a young girl's strength to find the truth in her mother's disappearance, and to rescue her. This book will teach you a few things in the process as you buckle in for a journey that will take you on a ride past this world and the next. I loved it." "This is an action-packed story for teens. I am an adult, but the wonderful writing, plot, characters and inventive setting kept me engrossed to the end.C. S. Lakin has created a suspenseful and enthralling book that kids from eleven to a hundred will love. Well done!" "Underneath this wonderful story is a tale of self-discovery and appreciation of the abilities of others. Self-sufficiency turns into trust. A sense of isolation turns into realization of the loyalty of friends.Although this is a YA story, I am an older adult who thoroughly enjoyed this exciting story. I recommend this book to both young adults and adults!" "Having read A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle in my youth, I was intrigued to find a contemporary author create a similar story. Time Sniffers was actually something that I probably enjoyed at least as much--if not more so--than the original stories! What I found especially interesting was the use of modern physics, the time travel (and the difficulty of describing the visuals involved!), and body-technology integrations that were required for the survival of the characters."

Time Sniffers

Das Herz der Geschichte schreiben: Ein Handbuch zum kunstvollen Verfassen eines unvergesslichen Romans.

Das Herz der Geschichte schreiben

"Six naive guests plus revenge served cold equals a recipe for disaster..." Lila Carmichael may be a rich and famous comedienne, but she's hidden her greatest talent from her adoring fans--her ability to simmer, spice and serve a carefully constructed tour de force at a cozy reunion on her private island in the Pacific Northwest. Six unsuspecting guests have forgotten the innocent little crimes they committed against poor, gullible Lila fifteen years ago in college. All are teetering on the brink of ruin, hoping the famous Lila will come to their rescue. But their desperation plays them right into her hand. One by one, Lila's guests are figuratively killed off in a vicious parlor game called Wolves. And revenge turns bittersweet when the weekend is over...and one guest is dead for real.

Innocent Little Crimes

Les 12 piliers essentiels de la construction de roman éliminent le mystère de la construction d'une histoire solide et vous montrent comment passer d'une idée à une œuvre complète en étapes simples et faciles à comprendre. À maintes reprises, les écrivains en difficulté font les mêmes erreurs fatales dans leurs manuscrits. Même les écrivains qui ont étudié les meilleurs livres d'écriture, pris des ateliers et suivi les blogs d'écrivains n'ont toujours pas la structure nécessaire à un bon roman. La vérité est que beaucoup d’écrivains pensent pouvoir écrire un roman sans prendre le temps d’apprendre les rouages de la construction de roman. Tout comme pour la construction d'une maison, les écrivains doivent maîtriser les outils et le matériel appropriés et suivre des règles solides sur le plan structurel s'ils souhaitent « construire un roman ». Les écrivains intelligents prendront le temps d'apprendre à structurer des piliers solides qui soutiendront leurs romans. Ce nouveau livre d’écriture complet décrit clairement comment construire chaque pilier essentiel pour qu’il puisse supporter le poids de votre histoire. Sans ce soutien fondamental, l'effondrement est inévitable. À l'intérieur, vous apprendrez : quels sont les quatre piliers principaux de soutien, et pourquoi et comment devez-vous les construire en premier avant de vous attaquer aux autres composantes de votre roman. comment déterminer si une idée peut potentiellement devenir un concept fascinant avec un coup de fouet et comment transformer cette idée en un concept renversant. quels sont les enjeux majeurs et comment s'assurer que votre roman explose d'enjeux. le secret pour créer un protagoniste fascinant, et les deux objectifs qu'il doit poursuivre. en quoi consiste réellement la tension et comment l'intensifier dans votre roman. la clé pour décrire des lieux évocateurs e

Votre plan pour la construction d’une histoire solide

Les 12 piliers essentiels de la construction de roman

Saiba o segredo de como escrever o coração de sua história! Este livro sobre as habilidades da escrita, cheio de técnica sobre a escrita de ficção, é como nenhum outro. Alguns romancistas escrevem com o objetivo de se tornarem best-sellers, na esperança de riqueza e fama. Alguns só querem escrever romances para ganhar uma renda estável para que possam alimentar as suas famílias e pagar suas contas. Alguns escrevem para expressar sua criatividade e não se importam se alguém lê seus livros. Então, há os outros escritores. Eles querem escrever um romance inesquecível- um tipo de livro que passa a ser chamado de clássico, que resiste à ação do tempo, que permanece muito tempo nos corações dos leitores e que muda suas vidas. Estes escritores querem saber o segredo de como chegar ao coração dos seus leitores. Se você é um desses escritores, "Escrevendo o Coração da Sua História" é o livro que você estava esperando. Com ele você vai aprender: •quais são os elementos-chave mais importantes que devem estar na primeira cena de sua novela, e alguns devem aparecer no primeiro parágrafo. •como tocar no coração de sua história, personagens, cenário, enredo, e temas empregando exercícios de escrita específicos. •formas de debater ideias para o enredo, temas, motivos, configuração e personagens ricos ao fazer uma série de perguntas que irá levá-lo mais profundamente abaixo da superfície de sua história. •qual a questão mais importante que deve ser feita na cena de abertura, a fim de escrever um romance inesquecível. •Quais são as três coisas que cada personagem deve fazer para que se torne verdadeiramente crível e convincente. •os segredos para estruturar cenas poderosas, concentrando-se sobre o "momento crucial". Não escreva apenas um bom romance. Crie um grande romance - cav

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