User:Rafael.tota/Books/Creative Writing - Structure & Technique

A guide of references in techniques, themes, styles, and other references.

 * Plot
 * Dramatic structure
 * Dialogue
 * Conflict (narrative)
 * Climax (narrative)
 * Falling action
 * Dénouement
 * Exposition (literary technique)
 * Subplot
 * Plot device
 * Plot twist
 * Deus ex machina
 * Dangler (plot device)
 * Deathtrap (plot device)
 * Cliffhanger
 * MacGuffin
 * Red herring
 * Shoulder angel


 * Themes
 * Leitmotif
 * Moral
 * Motif (narrative)


 * Style
 * Diction
 * Figure of speech
 * Imagery (literature)
 * Literary technique
 * Narrative mode
 * Stylistic device
 * Suspension of disbelief
 * Symbolism (arts)
 * Tone (literature)


 * Form
 * Fable
 * Fairy tale
 * Flash fiction
 * Hypertext fiction
 * Novel
 * Novella
 * Play (theatre)
 * Poetry
 * Screenplay
 * Short story


 * Genre
 * Adventure novel
 * Crime fiction
 * Docufiction
 * Epistolary novel
 * Faction (literature)
 * Fantasy
 * Historical fiction
 * Horror fiction
 * Magic realism
 * Mystery fiction
 * Paranoid fiction
 * Philosophical fiction
 * Political fiction
 * Romance novel
 * Saga
 * Satire
 * Science fiction
 * Speculative fiction
 * Superhero fiction
 * Thriller (genre)
 * Urban fiction


 * Tense (Time)
 * Future tense
 * Past tense
 * Present tense


 * Other References
 * Alternate history
 * Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
 * Apocalypticism
 * Audience
 * Cyberpunk
 * Doomsday event
 * Dying Earth (subgenre)
 * Fantasy tropes and conventions
 * Narrative structure
 * Rhetoric
 * Self-fulfilling prophecy
 * Soft science fiction
 * Storytelling
 * Utopian and dystopian fiction
 * Zombie apocalypse