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Post your Freytag's Triangles, chapter charts, pages, and ideas, and join your fellow writers in busting out the hammer and getting to work.

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If you're stuck, post what you're stuck on — your fellow students can help you!
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Post your ideas for scenes that could include reversals, and respond to other peoples' threads with your continuation of their scenes.

Resources:

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Download the worksheet for a Freytag's Triangle.

Dialogue for the narrative exercise in lesson 11, Creating Triangulation:

“Hey.”
“Hey yourself.”
“We need to talk.”
“Okay.”
“I need to tell you something.”
“Okay.”
“I’m late.”
“To what?”
“I’m late.”
“Oh.”
“So I took the test. And it’s positive.”
“You’re positive? I mean, you’re sure?”
“Yes.”
“Wow.”

Ben's suggested reading:

McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales — edited by Michael Chabon
Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader — Harry Crews
Goldfinger — Ian Fleming
Red Dragon — Thomas Harris
Plainsong — Kent Haruf
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo — Stieg Larsson
One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez
The Road — Cormac McCarthy
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" — Joyce Carol Oates
Detective Comics #35 and #36— Ben Percy

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