Stack, Build, Write: A Guide to Crafting Modular and Non-Linear Fiction

Helping you to broaden your approach to narrative design and to play around with structure, this clear and engaging guide to crafting modular and non-linear fiction provides the foundations for writers eager to embrace alternative patterns in story sequence. With a balance of big-picture analysis and hands-on exercises and entry points, Stack, Build, Write gives writers a tour of, and workshop in, narratives that at first seem chaotic or daunting, but which can unlock a realm of structural possibilities. Making a case that linearity and modularity exist on a spectrum and that elements of both traditional and alternative arcs are present in most narratives, Christopher Lowe leads writers through the methods and processes for leaning into the modular end of the spectrum. Taking examples from writers such as Jennifer Egan, W.G.