A new release from one of my favourite craft-of-writing authors, I bought this a few days after it came out. As the title implies, this is not your standard 101-level plotting book. Instead, Weiland covers five main areas that you won’t really see talked about in most basic plotting books. First, chiastic story structure (or “chiasmus”), essentially a mirroring technique for plot structure. In poetry, chiasmus can refer to an A, B, B, A rhyming scheme; in story structure it means that the plot mirrors itself around the midpoint, so for example there are resonances between the hook and the resolution, or the first plot point and the third plot point. Weiland goes through each set of pairs and how you can use those resonances to make your story more satisfying for the reader. In part 2, Weiland goes through the two halves of each major plot point (inciting incident, first plot point, midpoint, third plot point, climactic moment). In part 3, she discusses how to best employ the four “story worlds”: the normal world of the first act, the adventure world of the second act, the underworld of the third act, and the new normal of the resolution. She wraps up the book with a section on next-level plot questions (like “how perfect does the story’s timing need to be?”) and a section on scene structure. I thought the first section was the most interesting, but I like pretty much everything that Weiland writes, and this book was no exception. Another great addition to my Weiland collection.