{"id":6375,"date":"2007-10-28T16:05:58","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T21:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2007\/10\/28\/making_the_reader_thirst_part_2\/"},"modified":"2007-10-28T16:05:58","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T21:05:58","slug":"making_the_reader_thirst_part_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2007\/10\/28\/making_the_reader_thirst_part_2\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Reader THIRST! – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

To commemorate my 50% milestone<\/strong> (be it ever so elusive), I am including the “graph” of my book using my THIRST™ methodology, which stands for:<\/p>\n

T – Tension
\nH – Humor
\nI – Incident
\nR – Romance
\nS – Suspense
\nT – Terror\/Fear<\/p>\n

I have my plot in a spreadsheet<\/strong> with one row per scene and put numbers to all these values. All of them are between 1 and 10 (only allowed over that for special cases). <\/p>\n

Suspense is handled a little bit different by a plus number and a minus number. This is because it builds as the story progresses and doesn’t go down until you answer nagging questions or the main character solves a long standing problems. In general, the movement is upwards.<\/p>\n

The other areas besides suspense fade quickly in the mind of the reader and must be renewed with new tension \/ humor \/ incidents \/ romance \/ terror to keep the reader turning the pages. <\/p>\n

So here is the graph<\/strong> of my first book, with the shaded area representing how far I am:<\/p>\n

\"Merlin's<\/center><\/p>\n

Eventually I’ll post the Excel spreadsheet so that if you are a writer you can download it and try it out on the plot of your book.<\/p>\n

Click here to go to Part 3 of this THIRST series.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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