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Writing Act I: HARRY POTTER & THE SORCERER'S STONE
I love teaching Harry Potter as an introduction to story structure because it’s often a lot easier to see these story elements we’ve been talking about at work in a fantasy. And it’s always best to start with a movie you know well already....
The Three-Act, Eight-Sequence structure
The MOST important thing you can do to master story structure is to learn this essential film history and how to apply it to your books.
The secret, in a nutshell, is —
Movies are written in a Three-Act, Eight-Sequence structure.
It...
A Book by the End of the Year: INDEX CARDS
We’re heading into June. Are you ready to launch into your Book by the End of the Year?
In the last few weeks I’ve been posting to prompt your prep work - brainstorming, finding a premise, looking for the story gold of High Concept.
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Write a Book This Year - from the beginning
I’ve been wondering for several months now what I can do with this newsletter that would be most useful to people who are really committed to making this whole writing a book thing work.
After all, the STFA workbooks lay out a pretty defin...
High Concept case study: YESTERYEAR
High Concept is the Holy Grail of book ideas - pretty much an instant book deal. But authors very often struggle with what High Concept really means.
It’s worth your time to internalize that meaning, so that when you’re looking for your ne...
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