Lee Matthias

So what other things can lateral thinking offer the process of opening your story? Lateral thinking is about taking other paths, offering new things, surprise. by Lee Matthias (Continued from Part 3) If the story’s stylistics dictate that the opening plunge directly into the main narrative, then the approach would be to examine the story events that come first and … Read more

Of the surface approaches to structure that I have looked at, the Sequence method is my method of choice. This is because it offers the writer the ability to manage the story as it is written and keep centered along the way. by Lee Matthias (Continued from Part 2) While its main benefit is in … Read more

One of the greatest examples is the opening of Raiders Of The Lost Ark , where Indiana Jones is on the verge of finding a great treasure, deep in a cave in the South American jungle. -by Lee Matthias (Continued from Part 1) He’s confronted with a diabolical series of obstacles to getting to the … Read more