The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink.
It seems that good nonfiction (namely Big Idea) follows some of your beats ideas. A strong narratve, hooks, reader fascination, rising tension, unsolvable problems, crisis, climax, etc.
And the research doesn't solve everything, but might go off in unexpected directions.
While the worst non-fiction is outlined within an inch, boringly so.
Even a decent podcast has unexpected twists and reveals.
It seems that good nonfiction (namely Big Idea) follows some of your beats ideas. A strong narratve, hooks, reader fascination, rising tension, unsolvable problems, crisis, climax, etc.
And the research doesn't solve everything, but might go off in unexpected directions.
While the worst non-fiction is outlined within an inch, boringly so.
Even a decent podcast has unexpected twists and reveals.