Literary Agent & occasional marketing consultant @KCAgents. Disrupting @thegoodagencyuk. Also writing a book about autism & asparagus with my sister.
Jul 4, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Writers! I am far from the first to say this but you could do worse than study last night’s game if you want to think about suspense, because it was perfectly plotted. So I’ve put together this thread to explain more (drawing on @jyintothewoods’ 5 Act structure as I’m a fan)
Act 1: you establish the characters, the heroes and the villains, the first half culminating in the should’ve been red card doing this perfectly and setting up the drama.
And of course our goodies have shadows hanging over them, long carried failures, so much to prove.
