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I love the diagrams! Gone Girl is a book I don’t mean to keep loving (and mentioning) but any time I pick it up for a partial re-read, I’m struck by it’s excellence.

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I know, there is something about talking about suspense and saying "Gone Girl" that makes me feel ashamed, like I'm reaching for the easiest example ever, BUT SUE ME IT'S GREAT

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OK. Let me see if I got this. 1) Set up the story 2) Conront the incident and face obstacles 3) resolve where the characters have come to. Thanks. I needed that

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^ This is my dad, on his iPad that I forgot to log out of. Leaving it because the idea of ME writing this comment is so funny to me that I started choking on my sandwich when I read it. Thanks dad, I needed THAT.

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Nicely done. Reminds me of The Two Pillars of Novel Structure by James Scott Bell, an oldie but goodie. As a writer and book editor myself I get it.

I just started posting my suspense novel: https://michaelmohr.substack.com/p/the-grim-room-a-novel

Michael Mohr

"Sincere American Writing"

https://michaelmohr.substack.com/

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I'd never come across this before--seeing the spots between Acts 1+2 and Acts 2+3 as the tent poles of the novel. So interesting, thanks for sharing this Michael!!

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