Many best-selling fiction writers craft multi-layered, action-intense stories. Linear plots and single-POV characters can work, but complex stories engage readers and keep them turning the page. This seminar employs examples from popular fiction authors (George RR Martin, JK Rowling, Michael Connelly, Karin Slaughter, Laura Lippman, Celeste Ng, and others) to show their techniques for crafting a novel using interrelated multiple points of view and plot threads. Plot structure examples will demonstrate how to weave each plotline within a story for maximum impact, how to differentiate the various POVs by unique voices and characteristics, and how to plant hooks and foreshadowing in the storylines to suggest their eventual convergence and build suspense toward a unified climax and denouement.

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