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    Ebook390 pages4 hours

    Story Structure Architect

    By Victoria Lynn Schmidt

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    About this ebook

    Build a Timeless, Original Story Using Hundreds of Classic Story Motifs!

    It's been said that there are no new ideas; but there are proven ideas that have worked again and again for all writers for hundreds of years.

    Story Structure Architect is your comprehensive reference to the classic recurring story structures used by every great author throughout the ages. You'll find master models for characters, plots, and complication motifs, along with guidelines for combining them to create unique short stories, novels, scripts, or plays. You'll also learn how to:

    • Build compelling stories that don't get bogged down in the middle
    • Select character journeys and create conflicts
    • Devise subplots and plan dramatic situations
    • Develop the supporting characters you need to make your story work
    Especially featured are the standard dramatic situations inspire by Georges Polti's well-known 19th century work, The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations. But author Victoria Schmidt puts a 21st-century spin on these timeless classics and offers fifty-five situations to inspire your creativity and allow you even more writing freedom. Story Structure Architect will give you the mold and then help you break it.

    This browsable and interactive book offers everything you need to craft a complete, original, and satisfying story sure to keep readers hooked!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWriter's Digest Books
    Release dateJul 12, 2005
    ISBN9781582976990
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    • 4/5
      Story Structure Architect is an interesting book to read even if you aren't a storyteller. Like its name, the book detailed about the basic blocks that constitutes in making a story. This includes novels, novellas, screenplay, video games, choose your own adventures and etc. So technically, if you are looking for a read that detailed on each of these things, you wont get any but if you want to see things more clearly about the structure of a story (either its Final Fantasy 7 or Skyrim or 50 Shades rip-off), then this is quite a handy reference to have.

      Set in four parts i.e. Drafting in a Plan, Building the Structure, Adding Stories and Finishing Touches. Surprisingly, it was very organized book without the tendency for the author to promote their own work. But even for a non-newbie writer, I don't think I would get a lot from this book except from the first part where it have excellent simplified structure an average person could use like list of conflicts and dramatic 'throughlines' to break those writing blockades.

      Its not bad as its really nothing you haven't seen in the market unless you are doing creative writing syllabus that deals with these sort of things. Then, sure its a good book on its own. But if you are a beginner writer, then maybe you should go reading normal fiction than this kind of books so that you could have a framework that you could go on as everything in this book is very relatable to everything you see on films or books. Its not necessary but its a good thing to have if you are having hard time understanding the story structures.
    • 3/5
      This book covers the nuts and bolts of creating a good plot. I enjoyed learning about the various aspects of genre and dramatic situations.