See Farther. Hear More. Cut Cleaner.
by Dr. Tamer M. Lokman
$15.99
See Farther. Hear More. Cut Cleaner.
A cinematic method for finishing a novel
Tamer M. Lokman
A companion to See the Scene. Hear the Line. Cut.
This book is for the writer who can already hold a scene and now means to finish a novella or a novel. It does not teach plot recipes. It teaches one law: the same eye that sees a room must survive forty rooms, several minds, and a genre’s promise — without going blind.
The method is worked on a single locked seed, The Unlabeled Key. Eight plates sit beside the spec so the count can be seen: two deeds, two property keys, one unlabeled key; who is in the room; who is not; what the frame withholds.
What you learn to keep:
• Count — what is on the desk and the table
• Place — who may stand in the frame
• Withhold — what the drawing is not yet allowed to become
• Cut — night as a cut in time, not a change of set
• Eye — character as a way of seeing
• Ear — narrator as camera rights
• Genre — a contract of what may be seen, heard, and withheld
The book includes The Method on One Page, a close reading of the locked reel, workshop products after each movement, three applied genre contracts (literary realism, thriller, magical realism), and a short conversation with James, Booth, Genette, and Wood. It will not finish your novel for you. It will keep the eye that can.
Format. Luxury colour PDF, 6 × 9 in. Made to be read on a screen and printed in colour without change. First edition, 2026. British English. 80 pages including plates.
Who it is for. Intermediate and advanced fiction writers. Workshops. Creative-writing and narrative-studies rooms. Not a first lesson in writing a scene — that work is the companion volume.
What it is not. Not Save the Cat. Not a plot grid. Not a promise that length is the same as more events.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22967150