Lesson overview

Detailed practice
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
Gone
Michael Grant
high concept narrative
controlling pace
rising tension
worldbuilding
controlling scope
dialogue
crowd dynamics
mobs
escalation
showing crowd emotion
panic
describing a scene
project
scaling up
This lesson continues examining the structure of the first chapter of Gone. How does the author increase the scale of the story's event by introducing a crowd reaction, and use this introduction to ramp up the tension? We rewrite the passage looking at each of these details, and end with a checkpoint piece.