Diagrams
A picture is worth...Dramaticus Moebius
We built this website because we want to open a doorway for writers to go deep into the art and craft of writing. Writing today, in America, is about images. It is about images and action. We live in a post-literate world but it’s a world that lives for and consumes...
Mark the Killer Diagram
This diagram is being revised. Update indefinite. This diagram based on Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep plots a technique called Mark the Killer. Look at those teeth at the opening and again at the ending. In Silence of the Lambs, Harris makes Lecter a polydactyl...
Birth to Now Diagram
This diagram is in revision. Update indefinite. ©2010 by Jack Remick and Robert J Ray When Jack and I taught a Memoir course a few years ago, we came up with The Natural Journey – a series of writings designed to help memoir writers focus on the core of a memoir –...
Caper Curve Diagram
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Mythic Dynamo Diagram – Mystery Novel
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Mythic Dynamo Diagram
This diagram is being revised. Update indefinite. When we taught in the screenwriting course at the UW, Jack and I discovered core story as a technique for separating the plot from subplots, and subplots from each other. To put these separations into a picture, we...
Mythic Journey Diagram
This diagram is being revised. Update indefinite. This is a Mythic Journey Diagram we did for Angela’s Ashes. You can use it as model for your own diagram. ©2010 by Jack Remick and Robert J. Ray All rights reserved except by permission
