Terisa Green

I find that many books and blogs about book writing analyze movies, and not books. Ergo, vis-a-vis, concordantly–this is a book analysis, done as an exercise while reading James Scott Bell’s wonderful Plot & Structure. I use his index card method to break down a thriller novel, scene-by-scene, while looking for the major elements of plot: the disturbance (aka the hook), inciting incident (aka catalyst), doorway 1 (aka the first plot point, aka the climax of Act 1), pinch point 1, the world-changing mid-point, pinch point 2, doorway 2 (aka the second plot point, aka the climax of Act 2), and the climax.