(The) Writer's Mind: Topics for Workshopping Narrative
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Global Topics of Structure and ArrangementStep 1: Scene versus exposition (showing versus telling): reading for mimesis
Step 2: Articulate the controlling and counter ideas (reading for the context and purpose of the value that controls/dominates the narrative)
Step 3: Arrangement
Step 4: Close-reading: reading for surprising details that challenge the dominant reading
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Local Topics of Style: Tropes and Schemes
Step 6: Reading for rhetorical tropes
Step 7: Reading for rhetorical figures: schemes
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