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    The Three Act Structure for Professional Writers: Business for Breakfast, #7
    The Three Act Structure for Professional Writers: Business for Breakfast, #7
    The Three Act Structure for Professional Writers: Business for Breakfast, #7
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    The Three Act Structure for Professional Writers: Business for Breakfast, #7

    By Blaze Ward

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    You've learned how to use the Seven Point Plot Structure to tell a good story. However, a good writer needs more tools in her toolbox.

    Understanding the three act dramatic structure can give you a new way to build stories. Expanding to four acts, five, or even two, greatly enhances your repertoire. 

    Come explore the way we write for the stage as a method for increasing your skillset and becoming a better writer.

    Some of the topics discussed include:
    The Three Act Dramatic Structure
    Understanding Acts of a story
    Four Act Stories
    Working in Two Acts

    The Business for Breakfast series contains bite-sized business advice. This is a 201 level book, with intermediate advice for the professional.

    Be sure to read all the books in this series!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKnotted Road Press
    Release dateApr 10, 2018
    ISBN9781943663743
    The Three Act Structure for Professional Writers: Business for Breakfast, #7
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    Blaze Ward

    Blaze Ward writes science fiction in the Alexandria Station universe (Jessica Keller, The Science Officer,  The Story Road, etc.) as well as several other science fiction universes, such as Star Dragon, the Dominion, and more. He also writes odd bits of high fantasy with swords and orcs. In addition, he is the Editor and Publisher of Boundary Shock Quarterly Magazine. You can find out more at his website www.blazeward.com, as well as Facebook, Goodreads, and other places. Blaze's works are available as ebooks, paper, and audio, and can be found at a variety of online vendors. His newsletter comes out regularly, and you can also follow his blog on his website. He really enjoys interacting with fans, and looks forward to any and all questions—even ones about his books!

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      The Three Act Structure for Professional Writers - Blaze Ward

      The Three Act Structure for Professional Writers

      The Three Act Structure for Professional Writers

      Business for Breakfast Volume Seven

      Blaze Ward

      Knotted Road Press

      Contents

      Author’s Introductory Rambling Chapter

      1. What is the Three-Act Narrative Structure? Why Three Acts?

      2. Act 1 - Explained

      3. Act 2 - Explained

      4. Act 3 - Explained

      5. Marrying 3 Acts to 7 Points

      6. 4 (& 5) Act Structure Stories

      7. Comic Books & Ongoing Narratives

      8. 2 Act Structures

      9. Other Structures

      10. The Bond Opening

      11. Reviewing The 3 Act Dramatic Structure

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      About the Author

      Also by Blaze Ward

      About Knotted Road Press

      Author’s Introductory Rambling Chapter

      Unlike most of you, I came at modern fiction through a distinctly roundabout and confusing path that I wouldn’t recommend to anyone who wants to be sane at the far end. (No comments from the peanut gallery, please.)

      In the beginning, I was a poet. Long-form, un-rhyming, not following to any formal structure. (Technically, in the very beginning, I was an actor, and learned to breathe the words before I worked myself up to writing them, but that’s a story that requires you ply me with alcoholic beverages to hear.)

      I don’t rhyme. I write as I speak, using the turn of the language and the spaces on the page equally to impart a lesson. I’ve even published some of it for folks who wish to partake. The Forestal is a long piece. Epic and dark. Written over the course of about two years when I was in grad school, out in the nasty lands. You can see the sudden transition to desert as a motif for me being in a new land. Plus an imperial shit-ton of anger, unrelated, but nonetheless present.

      Later, (much later, as we measure the miles), I gave up writing formal stuff and contented myself with table-top role-playing games (and the characters therein). That assuaged my creative needs. I did write a few stories in those days, but most of the interesting stuff was contained in an RPG I created in the late 90’s that will never see the light of day, because then I’d have to share royalties with someone. (I’m currently in the process of giving the man that thing he wants most from this world. The Last Word.)

      Later, I started writing stage plays. No, I don’t know why either, except that J9 gets most of the blame there. She deserved it. Along the way, I had written several bad one-act plays, but I was using them to work out other things, so they served their purpose.

      Then I met a dude who taught screen-writing. I worked with him for several years. (One of these days, we might even stumble into five million dollars or twenty-five, and make some of them into actual movies. Again, another story for another time.)

      I learned the craft of screen-writing from him, which is entirely different from genre fiction, because it is primarily an auditory thing, with visuals a distant second and the written work a vague afterthought.

      So when the woman who would become Wife #2 (Fabulous Publisher Babe tm) convinced me to start writing for publication, I came at it a different way. Different analysis. Different format. Different structure.

      That’s because I started out in the Three Act Dramatic Structure for telling a story, something she hadn’t really ever been exposed to all that

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