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Great Stories Don’t Write Themselves: Criteria-Driven Strategies for More Effective Fiction

By Robert Dugoni , Larry Brooks

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2019
ISBN
9780593188286
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (7325144 bytes)
Pages
256\0
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2019-11-15 13:57:27

Description

Story is the exploration of something that has gone wrong and a lot has to go right during the telling of that story to render it a success. Yet one of the most common questions new writers ask professional writers is about how the author wrote their book, what was their process for storytelling (and from this we get plotters and pantsers)? But really the question should be about the general principles and nature of story—does every part of a story have what it needs to keep readers turning the pages (regardless of how the author got there)? Does every scene, every part of the story support the strategic narrative objective of providing new information a scene will inject in the story (the key principle of writing fiction)? In Great Stories Don't Write Themselves, Larry Brooks has developed a series of detailed checklists backed by tutorial content for novelists of every level and genre to refer to as they write regardless of which writing method...

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