What's the Story? Building Blocks for Fiction Writing
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Publisher Description
What's a story? Is it character? Plot? Conflict? Change? Why do some stories fall flat with audiences while others sweep the globe, captivating people in every corner of the world?
Stories are made up of many moving parts: action, dialogue, description, and exposition are just a few components of a story. These, and many other building blocks, are woven together to create a compelling and entertaining narrative.
What's the Story? Building Blocks for Storytellers parses the elements that work together to form a story, fostering a broader and deeper understanding of stories, what they are made of, and how they are developed.
The Storyteller's Toolbox series of books helps you develop skills and strategies to tell the best stories possible while exploring your creativity and developing a storytelling process that works for you.
Customer Reviews
Everything You Need
The subtitle of this book is building blocks for fiction writing, and that describes it perfectly. Everything you need to get started writing is here. Like building any structure it starts with the foundations and takes you through every single step required to bring your project to completion. Each step is carefully crafted to aid understanding and provide clarity. Nothing is left out. The writing tips at the end of each chapter are little golden nuggets of pure magic, supporting and expanding everything which went before. These alone are worth the price of the book. Whilst there is a lot of value to the new writer, does it have anything to offer an established writer? Having weighed this up carefully I would say, on balance, the answer is yes. In this instance it acts as both an aide memoir and a refresher. Overall an excellent book, full of extremely useful wisdom. I would have no hesitation in heartily recommending it to the writer.