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Consistently cited as one of the most influential graphic novels ever written, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ ground-breaking story of an alternate USA in which it won the Vietnam war and welcomed (and later shunned) a generation of masked vigilantes resonates as much today as it did in 1986. As, indeed, does the recurring anti-Reaganist mantra ‘who watches the watchmen?’. Comic fan or not, everyone needs to own this. How to Plot a Novel Using the 3-Act Story Structure. Kristen Kieffer, founder of Well-Storied.com, walks you step-by-step through one of the most popular story structures in this free 10-day course.

When Movern Callar wakes up to find her boyfriend dead in the kitchen, having taken his own life, she decides to steal and sell his unpublished novel, passing it off as her own work. Warner won the prestigious Somerset Maugham prize for his debut novel, and it was also made into a film by Lynne Ramsay. Another example of a classic cult novel, Toole would only receive his dues after his death (which came at tragically untimely 31, when he took his own life). He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction posthumously, and A Confederacy of Dunces, about the adventures of a slovenly, eccentric, latter day Don Quixote in 60s New Orleans is loved by a legion of fans. We’ve got you covered. Head to the free resources below to discover the writing world beyond story generators: Cool is a beautiful, moving and powerful story. It is also educational for children. I love the way that Robbie describes a coma. "Coma - funny word, that. Looks a bit like comma. Sounds like it too. Hope my coma is a comma, and not a full stop. I'm not exactly frightened of the "full stop". But I would miss everyone, everyone at home, at school….."The experience of being in a coma differs from person to person, and also depends on how deep the coma is. Some people remember events that happened around them while they were in a coma, while others don't. Some people have reported feeling enormous reassurance from the presence of a loved one / friend.Mind-bending and thoroughly post-modern, Calvino’s masterpiece of self-reference (‘you’ are part of the plot), its dizzyingly clever, labyrinthine construction has made it a classic. If there was ever a novel to make you look like an urbane Poindexter on the train/bus, then this is it.

Irvine Welsh’s stunning debut novel, written in phonetic Scottish slang, defined a generation. Where Danny Boyle’s iconic film portrayed Mark Renton as a likable if flawed heroin addict, the book is less generous with him as the morally dubious focal point of a group of friends, enemies and psychopaths hopelessly tethered to opiates in dilapidated 80s Edinburgh. This book is about a boy called Robbie who was chasing his dog aross the road because a car was coming and his dog was running after a cat.He ran out into the road and a car hit him.He was raced to hospital and thats all he could remember. The awards that Franzen’s third novel The Corrections didn’t win, weren’t really worth winning. Even some of the ones it did win weren’t worth winning, an endorsement from the Oprah Winfrey book club, for example, which he dissed and resulted in a petulant shunning of him by the media mogul. Whatever, this story of family dysfunction is a modern masterpiece. If there’s a cooler writer than Hemingway, we’ll eat our hats. And coats. His first novel finds American journalist Jake Barnes and a group of hard-drinking cohorts travelling from Paris to Pamplona to immerse themselves in bullfighting. Less a love triangle than a love pentagon emerges with the sexually unrepressed Lady Brett Ashley, causing smouldering tension in the Basque country.The archetypal ‘great American novel’, Gatsby, like so many works of literary genius, went underappreciated while Fitzgerald was alive. Only after his death did its resonance become deafening. The decline of the American Dream and a withering social commentary of moral decline and social decay typify this defining moment in literary history. UPDATE: Ready for another injection of cool? We've added a couple of more recent reads to our list, ones that became part of the cultural zeitgeist in the years in which they were released. These are Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends and cult fave My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. Vastly disturbing, Banks’ first novel caused a storm of controversy for the blank violence emitting from its troubled protagonist Frank Cauldhame, who describes a childhood growing up on the rugged north east coast of Scotland. The impending arrival of Frank’s brother Eric, who has escaped from an asylum, coupled with Franks bursts of mindless anger, create an unsettling gothic horror. I sleep a lot, almost all the time now. I want to stay awake in my head. I know I must, or else I'll die. Got to keep my mind awake. Got to keep living. But the trouble is that sleep is warm and gentle and inviting, and when it takes me by the hand I just want to go…." How to Structure a Novel Before You Write It. In this Reedsy Live video, NYT bestselling author Caroline Leavitt talks about plot structure — and a simple way to go about it.