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The Art of Plotting: Add Emotion, Suspense, and Depth to Your Screenplay
Plot must be as much about the emotions of the characters as it is about the events of the story. That’s the message of The Art of Plotting, which teaches screenwriters how to integrate plot, characterization, and exposition to make stories compelling. Using examples from recent and classic movies, author Linda J. Cowgill demonstrates how the plot springs naturally from the characters—and how that technique makes audiences connect with the story on a more intimate level. Easy exercises reveal common plot problems and help writers overcome them. .
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Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
Suspense, like other genre fiction, is often assumed to be inferior in quality to more "serious" fiction A suspense story can be every bit as well-wrought as any other, argues Patricia Highsmith in Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. To show how, Highsmith focuses as much on her failures as on her successes. Amid discussions about growing ideas, story development, plotting, first and second drafts, and revisions are anecdotes from Highsmith's own career. Highsmith ( Strangers on a Train) admits to editing with crayon (doing so "gives one the proper cavalier attitude"), napping on the job (it helps solve problems), and having written one "really dull" book. Though this book is slim, there are some lovely thoughts on such issues as creating a murderer-hero with "pleasant qualities," "stretch[ing] the reader's credulity," and using "as much care in depicting the face and appearance of ... main characters" as a painter would with a portrait. --Jane Steinberg.
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Plotting Pictures
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Plotting Women
Where is the common ground for feminist theory and Latin American culture? Jean Franco explores Mexican women's struggle for interpretive power in relation to the Catholic religion, the nation, and post-modern society; and examines the writings of women who wrote under the shadow of recognized male writers, as well as the works of more marginal figures. In this original and skillfully written book Franco demonstrates the many feminisms that emerge in apparently rigid and adverse situations, and provides the foundation for a more comprehensive, less ethnocentric feminst theory. .
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CFO Survival Guide : Plotting the Course to Financial Leadership
Praise for the CFO Survival Guide "The CFO Survival Guide is a bold, insightful account of the subtle yet powerful interdependencies connecting human values, beliefs, and behaviors to the work performed by people and the wealth this work creates. The Guide's Declaration of Interdependence will challenge aspiring CFOs and corporate leaders to reexamine their understanding of how wealth is created, sustained, and managed in the twenty-first century, and what effect their roles have on wealth-creation and the evolution of the living organizations they lead." -Charles S. Royer SAS Institute, Public Sector-Federal Government Strategic Solutions Major, U.S. Marine Corps (1990-2003) "Stenzel and Stenzel shatter the myth that financial leadership is about money and numbers. They prove that to create wealth, a great CFO must be quantitatively savvy, emotionally intelligent, and inspirational." -Richard E. Boyatzis Professor of Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University Coauthor with Daniel Goleman and Annie McKee of the international bestseller Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence "More important to creating a robust bottom line is to build and nurture relationships with employees, customers, suppliers, community, and nature. Catherine and Joe Stenzel give CFOs a much-needed wake-up call." -H. Thomas Johnson 2001 Shingo Laureate Professor of Business Administration, Portland State University "Not your usual CFO portrayal. The Stenzels create a compelling argument for why and how putting CFOs in touch with people is central to organizational success." -Paul Sharman President, Focused Management, Inc..
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Plotting for Beginners: A novel for new beginnings
"Charming, intelligent and side-splittingly funny. Anyone who is a wife or mother will find a yes' moment on every page."-Lynne Barrett-Lee Women reach fifty and think they're on the verge of liberation and excitement, and their broken-down men just want to stay home and fart. Or in my case, go and live in a cabin in the Rockies and fart. Sally Howe plans to spend her husband-free year trying her hand at becoming a wildly successful author. But she's beset by distractions-the first being a queue of local lotharios led by young Billy Bathgate, village postmaster with a tartan trouser habit and an obsession with drain rods. Plotting for Beginners offers a wry evaluation of long-haul marriages, plus a lesson on how to hit menopause running and seize your freedom when the family has gone. Sue Hepworth previously worked as a research psychologist, social researcher, full-time mother, and various combinations of these, and she has been a frequent contributor to The Times. She lives in the Peak District with her husband in an empty nest and is addicted to sweet peas and romantic comedies. Jane Linfoot was brought up in North Yorkshire and on Teesside. She has trained and worked as an architect, spent seven years in rural France, had children, moved thousands of hay bales, and pruned a lot of vines. Linfoot now lives in a sheltered spot up a mountain road in the Peak District with her children and assorted animals. She enjoys slide shows and Volkswagen Beetle Cabriolets. She also plays around with houses and writes. .
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Official DataCAD User's Guide (Starburst 9.0)
The most up-to-date, comprehensive guide to DataCAD Written for the new 9.0 release by DataCAD staff, the hands-on Official Datacad User’s Guide puts at your fingertips a complete A to Z guide to the use of this single most popular architecture-specific CAD program. Authors Michael Smith, Richard Morse, and Shelly Flanigan provide you with a tool that clarifies new features of the software, include the ability to externally reference other drawing files(XREF) and open multiple documents at the same time for cutting and pasting. Among the topics you’ll find fully examined are:
DataCAD: Settings and display options…printing and plotting
2D: Moving objects…editing…basic and advanced construction drawings… making difficult or repetitive tasks easier…templates and symbols
3D: Basic 3D modeling…creating 3D from 2D…advanced 3D modeling…construction drawings from 3D models…construction estimator module
Plus: Techno Files…Customizing DataCAD…Recommended Macros Communicating from DataCAD into AutoCAD and other Programs: Converting File formats…Networking
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Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of German Resistance
Fest recounts in vivid detail the events leading up to the July 20, 1944 attempt by German anti-Nazi conspirators to kill Hitler with a bomb, and for the first time, brings to a popular audience the full story of the German resistance. .
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