Six Element Novel Story Classic

Late in the nineteenth century saw artists such as Van Gogh, Cezanne and Seurat back to the old masters of the seventeenth century geniuses such as Rembrandt and Poussin, techniques to enrich their work.
Why fiction writers today rarely, if something similar to help, write a novel to learn, looking back on the old masters of the bestseller list for Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton and Stephen King's days of our parents and grandparents about their profession? Consider the work of six authors who not only yesterday dominated bestseller lists, but their capacity coherence masses as their place among the most successful authors of all time. In her books, the narrative techniques that are timeless value of the novelist business today or any other day. Part of this timeless and applies to your novel to write:
Erle Stanley Gardner
The creator of the lawyer-detective Perry Mason and a lawyer himself (we say it is the model of Mason) Gardner was easily the best-selling and prolific crime writers of all. Since the early thirties until his death in 1970 he produced two or three of its case, the ... Novels per year, enough employs five full-time secretaries transcribe his dictation.
Technique # 1: Put your story in front and center, while Story was literally in Gardner. Characterization and information was of secondary schools, if any, importance. For Gardner, the novel was simply the most effective way to present his detective mystery. Like Agatha Christie, Gardner rely heavily on dialogue, so that his books often read like scripts.
Here is the beginning of no-nonsense case of the screaming woman, an example of how we Gardner hooks immediately with the first of its bizarre history:
Della Street, Perry Mason's private secretary, joined the cabinet of Mason, went to the office of the lawyer and said, "You always have something unusual in Chief. This time I have a Lulu!"
"Unusual? Mason, he asked, looking papers on his desk.
"Unique," she said.
"Enter," Mason said it.
"A woman called John Kirby," said Della Street, "and I wanted to keep cons-examination of her husband."
"A divorce case? Mason asked.
"No, she and her husband are good friends."
But, she wants me to resistance testing? "
"It is true."
"What?"
"About where he was last night."
Mason frowned. "Della, I'm no lie detector. I am not an analyst. I do not handle domestic relations cases."
"That's what I'm Mrs. Kirby," said Della Street said. 'She told me she only wanted her husband protected interests. She said she wanted you to hear his story to its self-insurance puncture and tear him to pieces.
While some would be trying to call Gardner stylist, there is no arguing that he could stop with a wildly improbable premise at the beginning of each of his books. This ability to build, a novel about the power of the story, instead, as he told this story, which makes him a favorite of millions.
Sometimes this kind of storytelling get-to-point exactly what readers want, for example, when what they really want is a mystery how difficult novel.
If you are by Don Gardner for plotting genius, why embellish your book with unnecessary details or a description? You could do, and your book a disservice. Bare-bones, focuses the action on the desktop can be the ideal concept for your novel of mystery and suspense.
Erskine Caldwell
"Since the day of my birth until I reach the age of twenty years, I rarely spent more than six years in the same place," wrote the roux, the Georgia-born son of a Presbyterian minister, who ran with eighteen guns a revolt in Central America. He has also worked as a laborer, worker pool, cotton pickers, sawmill hand, professional football player, a taxi driver, a machinist in a burlesque theater, rock, soda jerk, literary critic and journalist, cook and waiter.
Caldwell is best known, however, that the author of novels, sometimes shocking to the poor south, especially in 1933, God's Little Acre, are among the most popular novels of all time. Not far behind Tobacco Road, written the previous year.
Technique # 2: The characters of the novels paint with heart Caldwell on "American Primitive" experienced phenomenal success in large part, because Caldwell (such as Mark Twain and Bret Harte, which is often compared) really cared about the people he wrote about. This love for these people at their best and the worst thing would not exist if he had not known so well, and it is this knowledge that he may show in all its humor, eccentricity and pathos, qualities that these people irresistibly to make readers.
In this excerpt from Tobacco Road, Ellie May Lester shows his feelings for Lov Bensey. Lov Pearl is Ellie May, the younger sister, who sleep with married Lov denied. Ellie May, when harelipped is all too willing to Lov what he wants.
[Lov] saw Ellie May now. They finally got to give it some attention.
Ellie May came closer and closer to Lov. She moved through the court increasing his weight on his hands and slip on the white sand and hard. She smiled, Lov, and to try to give him more attention. You could not come for him, they wait when they went to him. His cleft palate was divided in its upper teeth, so that seems his mouth as if she had no upper lip at all. Men usually do have to do with Ellie May, but it was now eighteen, and she was the discovery that it should be for them to find a man, although their appearance.
"Ellie May used to do when your old dog when he got the itch," said Jeet Dude. "Look at the scratched buttocks on the sand. These old dogs are used to do the same kind of sound and Ellie May. It sounds like a squealing pigs, eh?"
The chances are not like the people you meet every day, Erskine Caldwell, but it could also have been good, and he paints as he saw her alive with a brush full of color and broad strokes.
In most novels, it is essential that the author gives us characters that we know and love as much as we are known and can be loved by Caldwell. To create these characters in your novels supersympathetic looking directly at the people you know and love better than others. Only when we know and love your characters, you can not do the same.
Ian Fleming
Based on his experience with British Naval Intelligence, Fleming created James Bond 007, Bond and Fleming and often become confused in the public opinion. Although Fleming called his work "trivial nonsense," his spy adventures had been a phenomenal success worldwide with John F. Kennedy among his most ardent fans.
Technique # 3: Call our wildest fantasies of Fleming pound success was the way in which she attributed our wildest dreams. James Bond, more than all the other heroes of fiction, fantasy, many people lived a life of complete independence and self-indulgence.
At the height of You Only Live Twice, Bond is a prisoner of his old enemy, Ernst Blofeld, the castle on the cliff of death. Bond manages to escape the deadly volcanic mud from the interrogation room to save his head the sword of the Samurai Blofeld is massive, and ultimately to dominate and strangle Blofeld. He even set up around the castle itself out of the window and in the end destroy trapped on a narrow ledge.
. . . He looked over the edge. A highlight of the hundred-meter gravel. A whistle-soft ribbed about it caught his ear. He looked up. Only a breath of wind in the dispersal of the bloody ball! But then a crazy idea came to him, a flashback to one of the old movies where the hero Douglas Fairbanks in the great hall had fallen to a jump on the chandelier. The helium balloon was strong enough to stretch to fifty feet in the cotton field to keep up with the warning sign! Why should it not strong enough to withstand the weight of a person?
Bond ran to the corner of railing on which the anchor line was attached. He tested them. It was like a wire stretched! From somewhere behind him there was a great clamor in the castle. . . Holding on to the rope, he climbed onto the rail, cut a foot for themselves in the banner of cotton, and the seizure of key tape with the right hand bottom with chopped Blofeld sword and threw himself into space.
It worked! It was a breeze, the night light, and he felt himself floating gently on the park in the moonlight, the glittering, steam of the lake towards the sea, but he stood up, not fall! The sphere of helium was not at all terms of their weight! Then the blue and yellow floating on the floor of the castle and an occasional angry wasp against zipped. . . . Now, the black silhouette of the castle in the moonlight seemed to waver and jig and sideways, and then slowly, like a cone of ice dissolve in the sun. The top floor crumbled, then another and another, and then after a while, a huge orange flash fire shot out of hell to the moon. A buffet of cold wind, through a crack of thunder echoed followed struck his ball and swung violently Bond.
. . . Perforated by a ball, the ball quickly lose altitude. Below the sea gently swelling offered a bed. . . .
It seems clear that Fleming never forget that most people who read for pleasure, to escape to read, and that the reader so much away when they want to get for their time and money.
Do you have other characters banal and mundane, banal, everyday things, where they would be so interesting and do things we only dreamed of? Fleming knew, and every writer must not forget that one of the greatest joys of writing is that the impossible can be made possible. Give your players a run for their money. Whether they are true, wonderful escape into the worlds you create for them.
Mickey Spillane
His novels were detectives called evil and sadistic, but they have won millions of fans still Spillane. The son of Brooklyn, the bartender, the Irishman started his career as a writer stories sell the slick "and pasta, then writes comics. His novels, said most of them with rough, tough Mike Hammer (similar to his creator), Spillane on the list of all-time best seller over and over has increased from 1947, I landed, the jury of the fifty "My Gun is fast, The Big Kill, a lonely night, the long wait and Kiss Me, mortal, from 1961, the Depth.
Technique # 4: Torture, the reader at the end of his methods of creating suspense, Spillane said: "You do not know a book to read to get to the East. You get to read a book to end. You deliberately torture you all the way through in the hope that worth after all the junk at the end will be all the time they spent reading. True? It must be quite happy in the last row.
An excellent example of how Spillane his words into action sets, the end of, I used the jury (I reveal a little in order not to):
"No, I am ----, the jury today, and the judge, and I promise you. Beautiful as you are, as I have loved you most, I sentence you to keep to death.". . .
The roar of the 45 shook the room. ---- Trat back. His eyes were a symphony of incredulity, incredulous testimony to the truth. Slowly, she looked at the ugly swelling in her naked belly where the bullet went up into a thin stream of blood gushed about.
I stood before her and pushed the gun in his pocket. I turned and looked at the rubber tree behind me. He had cocked the pistol on the table, and attached with the silencer yet. Those loving arms reach beautiful. A face that is waiting to be kissed, was actually waiting to be splattered with blood when she blew my mind. My blood. When I come back I heard it. Her eyes had pain in the now, the pain of death. The pain and disbelief.
"How could you c?" she moaned.
I had only a moment before talking to a corpse, but I'm in.
"It was simple," I said.
Remember how we all want to be surprised, and some things, like your novel, whatever kind it is the novel to write. It is a wonderful feeling to read a book and to recognize that a skilled writer Really Got the best from us. Watch out for your fair play surprises, but in order to be credible and secure necessary equipment or to earlier evidence.
Frank Yerby
Georgia-born Yerby is known for its bright and intricate stories of the South, the most successful are known to the Foxes of Harrow 1946, 1947, The Vixens, and 1949 Castle Pride. One critic wrote that "Mr. Yerby could be a very good writer, if he ever his spirit from the collar and the cash, but the world is always a new novel Yerby welcomed unconditionally.
Technique # 5 conjure: the magic of the moment Yerby is famously known for his colorful language, with its multitude of characters and writing, in the words of Arna Bontemps, with a hint of color, appearance, just give up, the ability right now to and life-creating characters who live in the moment, a hint of elemental magic. "
Devilseed is the story of Mireille Duclos Yerby, who, like many women of her time, penniless sailing gold-crazy San Francisco in the 1850s, and it jumps to the wealth and prestige. In this scene we see Mireille riding in the city that the new wife of Mr Alain Curtwright.
Mireille Landau imposing mahogany and rosewood-paneled East to Portsmouth Square by Clay Street swept, beating established trot behind her pair of dark, imported Australian horses. High on the driver's seat before her, sitting Swithe brothers Jacques and John, his coachman and servant, and wore the colors just as impressive as their trainers, their faces under their high-hat, the dark the cache of its magnificent pair of five steps in frowns placed behind self-importance.
"Mammy" Pleasant Mireille blacks was proposed with a note they hire them that Mireille was pleased to do so, even knowing that Mary Ellen Pleasant was safely placed in his position to spy sent. Now, looking back stretched strongly against their livery coat, she felt spitefully are pleased that they were "turned" every two is that they have now, if not all, of his side, the end of the double agent. For the assignment of a process with a lot of goodness, the real test, sometimes even with a simple, no tender familiarity, the black slaves in the 1850s could receive an incredibly beautiful young white woman's dream, they get more information about Mary Ellen Pleasant bizarre twists and plain evil of them when they returned home on Washington Street on their own feet.
When she appeared at the top folded down the rear driving cars back and the breeze in his hair raven's hat-chip, all the men took off their hats on the sidewalk and waved to him. More than one of them significantly reduced. The women do some firm and allegedly turned their backs. Mireille smiled with quiet satisfaction of the show. From the fabulous Lola Montez, mistress of the immortal composer Franz Liszt pianist, former mistress of King Ludwig of Bavaria, lady-the list is endless! Spider-Dance, the man drove the cloth, not to mention the easy minors and business people whose minds had San Francisco last fall, has to settle permanently, swore they had in the pleasant little mountain town of Grass Valley California inherited Mireille, the default Lola Crown Half the world's most famous city. . . .
Yerby uses the details of place and time as a tool to evoke the character, rendering functions Mireille and Mary Ellen, when and where they live, and vice versa. The brothers Swithe, coachmen and servants, very much a sign of wealth right now are the mechanism by which Mary Ellen Mireille spies who in turn uses the same purpose. We see people of their feelings for Clay Street Mireille shows through social habits of the place and time Grand rainbows and waves his hat men is exaggerated in the back of the woman. Note highlighted the use of a real person and colorful, Lola Montes, to Mireille and their role in San Francisco.
Use these techniques to make the characters in your novel, almost an extension of its time and place. Ask them to use, misuse, and respond to objects and customs, much of their world, so we do not remember it, these characters, recalls how they dressed, how they spoke, what they ate and all the other ways she and her world to interact.
Not one person has been born who has not, to a certain extent by the form, where and when he / she lived. The magic of the moment in the reading of fiction is to learn how people live, adapt and use them where and when we interact with our own.
Harold Robbins was a tribute to the power of Robbins and adaptability, that was a Titan in 1988, as it was forty years ago, when he published in 1948 to hold Never Love a Stranger.
Publishers Robbins announced that every time someone one minutes Robbins novel, a further tribute to his left with his audience never buys. Not bad for a poor boy from New York that his career began as a grocery clerk, short order cook, cashier, waiter races and racing bookmaker.
Robbins was most praised for the authenticity of the world in which he defined his novels. Never Love a Stranger drew much from the experience Robbins grew up in New York, and described so vividly the world of prostitutes and blackmailers one critic described as "Les Miserables" New York. "
Technique # 6: Make a background character in 79 Park Avenue, where the heroine, Mary began a poor boy from Second Avenue and winds a call girl at the Park Avenue, Robbins describes the sordid world of prostitution at sea, there is no doubt noticed that there is growing:
She stepped into the lobby of the hotel and a place in a quiet corner away from the selected route. "Opening a copy of Vogue that she had brought, they looked through his arms crossed....
A few minutes passed. Then a hunter could hear from her. "Triple eleven years," he said softly.
"Three-Eleven," she replied, a smile on his lips.
He shook his head. "Right. He is waiting there."
"Thanks." She smiled and held out his hand.
"You're welcome, Miss," replied the hunter, with two of her bills. He walked away quickly.
Slowly, she closed her magazine and looked through the lobby when she got up. It was normal. The house has been occupied us the other Dick, office workers with the check-in, other people in the lobby all the guests were. Satisfied with their quick check, she walked toward the elevators. It had nothing to fear. Everyone has been accepted. Mac had to put the owner of the rooming house, his wisdom, that question.
"Choose a place to operate from," he said sympathetically. "Then eighth, above all, that anyone who might be interested in is paid. They leave you alone then, help you."
Clearly, Robbins would not have taken a novel with the backdrop of prostitution, if that does not feel he could not so convincing. But his use of detail and atmosphere is what sets apart this and his other novels, so that as memorable for its depiction of the world and the place for their characters.
When deciding on the world in your novel place to view the world that you know so well that you are completely overlooked. The authors found these worlds, literally right under their nose, the richest and work more authentic. Finally, not a writer or a person to know better their own lives and the lives of those he has seen in person?
Masterpieces reveal
On the shelves of your library and bookstore are countless masterpieces used yesterday that excited and offers to its players, because some techniques that could work at any age. Is it not telling, but a timeless art that we have, since we can perfect first appeared on Earth? Why do not some of these blockbusters past by the old masters? You can borrow some features of a best-selling book of your choice.