From the Book - First edition.
Free yourself from the paralyzing rules of fiction. Prologues ; Description ; -ly adverbs ; Purple prose and painted paragraphs ; The immediate inciting incident ; "To be" verbs ; Show versus tell ; Begin with action ; Point of view ; Speech attributions ; Outlining ; That ; Switching between storylines ; Floating body parts
Gerunds, participial phrases, sentence fragments, beginning with conjunctions, ending with prepositions, and passive voice. Breaking the fourth wall ; Weasel words ; Read everything ; Elmore Leonard's rules ; The big enchilada
The great commandment of fiction. Hacking your reader's brain ; Character brain-plot brain ; A brain chemistry story map ; What's it all about, Alfie?
The brain's greatest hits. The monomyth ; Archetypes ; Aristotle's Rhetoric
