![]() ![]() The fractal, which is a well-known branching pattern in nature andĬan form the backbone of a story that can follow a few lines of inquiry at Where all of the action revolves around a major event that has already The spiral, where a story twirls inĬircles until the main character has made a final decision. Nudged along by each rippling small wave. There’s the ripple, where a story is slowly Meander, where the author takes you from point to point via a wandering,ĭigressive path in between points. Really gets going is in the chapters that each describe a novel structure based SheĮxplores sentences, colour, and texture, the use of white space, the movement Introducing the reader to “Primary Elements:” looking at the text close-up. Operative word, as Alison herself is quite playful when defining how specific Play with the possibilities of these various other structures. She hopes novelists will naturally consider new structures, and that they’ll ![]() She is keen to spread the word about these narrative arcs because Patterns that are fundamental to nature: meander, spiral, explosion, radial,įractal, and cell. Narratives, and discovers that there are many novels that actually follow After reading it, Alison is on the hunt for other non-standard Working in a different language made it easier to see a book’s structure than She taught herself German just so she could read W.G. Quotes from Sukenick, “Instead of reproducing the form of previous fiction, theįorm of the novel should seek to approximate the shape of our experience.”Įnthusiastic and wandering mind, which starts with a book club in Germany where Novel’s narrative arc, what immediately comes to mind? Perhaps a dusty old memoryįrom high school English class, of the teacher drawing an inverted ‘V’ on theĬhalkboard to show the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, andĪs Jane Alison writes in her latest book, Meander Spiral Explode: “Bit masculo-sexual, no?”Ī cold shower to ward off the standard narrative arc and rewire our mentalĬircuitry to see the patterns of nature in the structure of novels. ![]()
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