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Sure. The technical side of things is explained here: http://www.gabrielgambetta.com/tgl_open_source.html http://www.gabrielgambetta.com/tgl_open_source.html (s
by ggambetta 8y ago
Sure. The technical side of things is explained here: http://www.gabrielgambetta.com/tgl_open_source.html http://www.gabrielgambetta.com/tgl_open_source.html (same link as above). If you're more interested in the creative aspect, I wrote a bit here: http://www.gabrielgambetta.com/tgl_swiss_trains.html http://www.gabrielgambetta.com/tgl_swiss_trains.html. If you're interested in anything not covered there, feel free to ask, I'll be happy to share :)
- bravura 8y ago"Soon the structure underlying The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons and The Lost Symbol was laying bare before my eyes. I could see why the stories worked. I had reverse-engineered Dan Brown." Could you talk a little more in depth about what Dan Brown's pattern/structure is?
- ggambetta 8y agoI get that request a lot, so I'll have to write something about it :) All I can offer right now is my raw notes, which are in Spanish. This is a structural analysis of Angels and Demons, The da Vinci Code, and The Lost Symbol: https://imgur.com/bX6ByJA https://imgur.com/bX6ByJA This is an one-page treatment of the three books, with the "blanks" filled appropriately for each: https://imgur.com/LlDVUKn https://imgur.com/LlDVUKn I doubt any of this is groundbreaking. Story structure is a widely studied topic (and one that I find fascinating). But it seems like Dan Brown uses a very well defined, customised version of this, that makes for engaging, fast-paced books. I sort of proved (for myself, at least) that this works, by writing a novel whose structure was originally based on this pattern (although it later diverged a bit), and which causes the expected effect - a couple of readers have read it in a single sitting :)
- bambax 8y agoVery interesting! Could you maybe provide those links in text form, so that we may run them through Google Translate? ;-)
- odiroot 8y agoThanks for the second link! This is exactly what I meant. EDIT One more question. How do you write dialogues in MD?
- ggambetta 8y agoMaybe I'm misunderstanding your question, but there's nothing special about dialogue in MD. Quotation marks, inner thoughts in italics. "It's just some text between quotation marks", Gabriel typed. *Have I completely misunderstood his question?*
- odiroot 8y agoNo, that's exactly that. Thank you!