Narrative Navigator Gifts

Story Template

"'Yes,' she mumbled?... Sighed?... Muttered?... Snarled?... Hissed?... Growled?..."

Characters jumping out of a book.

"Right here is where you lost the narrative flow."

'I'm sorry, madam, that's not much help - lots of books start !Once upon a time!'

'Once upon a time...'

"Just give me the broad strokes."

"It was only when I started to write the story of my life that I realised I'd forgotten to have one."

A new book with a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

Write a Screenplay

"I feel that I have at least one more unpublished novel in me."

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

There's less here than meets the eye.

After months of writer's block, the great man's biographer finally decides how to end the book.

Writer's Block.

'And do you, Cathie, promise to advance Ed's narrative?'

"Nothing wrong with half-truths...you still have 50% to manipulate."

"Here it is - my novel. I'll be interested to hear your compliments."

"I wrote, self-published and remaindered it myself."

The Death Fires (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner).

Editorial Control

'This is where it gets tricky. I see 3 alternate endings and a director's cut.'

'I'm not being punished! I'm reading because I happen to enjoy reading!'

"It's the grisly story of the brutal murder of a publisher who rejected a brilliant novel about the brutal murder of a publisher who..."

The central metaphor of her novel was a fly.

'I'm a writer.' - 'What a coincidence, I'm a reader.'

'Is this your first book launch?'

Fiction/Non Fiction/A Toss Up.

"Dumb it up."

"That was too many fresh original voices for one night."

"More rescue efforts, less screenplay."

"I couldn't tell if it was a fable or it was badly written."

"I love my unreliable narrator. You?"

"My client has been convicted by the media, but I am confident that his conviction will be overturned on appeal by the three major networks and the 'Times.'"

"This is an excellent story, Doris, so far."