Story Structure Architect: A Writer's Guide to Building Dramatic Situations and Compelling Characters
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Story Structure Architect: A Writer's Guide to Building Dramatic Situations and Compelling Characters
With Story Structure Architect, writers discover how to use the classical structures found in all literature since Greek mythology to create unique and successful works. Presented in a fun, 2-color illustrated design, this book:
-Walks readers through each step of the structuring process--from identifying characters to weaving in subplots to building conflict -Offers thousands of possible story combinations with its browsable and interactive index format -Features 56 timeless dramatic situations, plus a blank situation template writers can use as they structure their own work
These techniques apply to every genre--making this book a must-have resource for anyone who writes short fiction, novels, scripts, or plays.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Fantastic Book! Been Looking 20 Years for this!!:
This is a fantastic book! It coalesces all the various competing worlds of story structure. I have been studying novel construction for decades and this book finally gave me a schematic all-encompassing understanding and all the detail that I needed. I wish this book had been written in 1983. This is a godsend. If you are trying to seriously write novels, get this book right away!
Excellent Content Undermined by Bad Book Design:
A worthy book rather undone by incompetent book design which I must say, is unusual for the publisher, Writer's Digest Books. The designer might as well be a college kid turning in a freshman project. It was an altogether aggravating read and I only persisted because the information is extremely uuseful Victoria Lynn Schmidt, Ph.D., had created an amazing blueprint that covers many aspects of story structure in useful detail [about the only thing she didn't do was diagram sentences or provide... more info
Superficially Helpful:
I bought this book and returned it back after a few weeks. Here is my take on it. The author breaks down the Plot construction into Throughlines, Conflicts, Structure and Situations (she also adds Genre and Research into the mix as well). If you do a search on the web, many others before her have taken a combination of the above to reflect what constitutes the main plot structures. In this book, she breaks it down into separate entities within itself and treats each as a "step" in constructing a plot.... more info
First impressions are not always correct:
When I first picked up this book I thought it was a simple little how-to book. I was wrong. This book has a wealth of information. It strips away the flowery prose most how-to-write books use and leaves the meat. Don't just read this book. Study it, take notes. Write out the information and put it in an order that makes sense to you. If you're like most writers I know, you'll learn more by hand writing notes than simply skimming over the pages.
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