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1) The hero
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"In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher series explores the endurance of heroes from Achilles to Bond, showing us how this age-old myth is a fundamental part of what makes us human. He demonstrates how hero stories continue to shape our world, arguing that we need them now more than ever. From the Stone Age to the Greek Tragedies, from Shakespeare to Robin Hood, we have always had our heroes. The hero...
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"A modern and actionable guide to the fundamentals of writing compelling, well-crafted, authentic stories in any medium, with lessons illustrated by novels, plays, films, music, video games, and TV, and writers from Shakespeare and Dostoevsky to Quentin Tarantino and Eminem."--
"A master class of 27 lessons, drawn from 27 diverse narratives, for novelists, storytellers, filmmakers, graphic designers, and more. Author Daniel Joshua Rubin unlocks the...
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For better or verse, you've always written poetry. Or dabbled in it.
No one ever took you seriously. But one day (you thought), you could be the next Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Maya Angelou.
Well, you can. And it all starts with your very first chapbook.
This is a month of tips, a trainer at your shoulder, 40 years of writing tips squeezed densely into these pages to walk you through your first poetry chapbook. Stem to stern, from creation of your...
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Are you a writer who yearns to conquer the romantic comedy genre, only to stumble over the same hurdles time and time again?
Fear not, the remedy is at hand! Prepare to embark on a literary adventure that will transform your storytelling prowess and captivate readers with epic tales of laughter and love.
Introducing "The Rom-Com Writer's Companion: A Guide to Unforgettable Romantic Comedy Novels." This literary treasure is a beacon of hope...
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The Biggest POV Resource in History on a Single Page! POV Matrix features over 3,000 Points of View on One Page, making it the ultimate tool for mastering perspective in storytelling.This pioneering reference is designed to categorize and clarify Points of View, allowing you to understand and construct the most compelling POV for your narrative. With this seamless approach of the POV Matrix, no tale is beyond this system's reach. Despite the abundance...
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Thanks to this guided storytelling course you will learn how to create and structure a story from beginning to end, following the archetypes of storytelling, the so-called "hero's journey".
If you have a book in your drawer, if you are missing some incipits or some narrative features, this is the path for you. You will learn to create blocks to fill in order to make your story compelling and exciting, to characterize the protagonists, antagonists...
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An insightful how-to guide for writing screenplays that uses Aristotle's great work as a guide.
Long considered the bible for storytellers, Aristotle's Poetics is a fixture of college courses on everything from fiction writing to dramatic theory. Now Michael Tierno shows how this great work can be an invaluable resource to screenwriters or anyone interested in studying plot structure. In carefully organized chapters, Tierno breaks down the fundamentals...
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How does a book written in 1818 by a teenage author remain a classic and a bestseller, still permeating our culture and haunting readers 200-years later?
In this Masterwork Guide to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Story Grid editor and novelist Maya Rushing Walker leads us deep into the heart of the story, demonstrating how Shelley blends essential elements of the horror and morality genres to spectacular and chilling effect.
The Guide opens with an...
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Manage without giving up the work you love and discover the leader within.
Conventional management thinking says that to manage effectively you must delegate. It implies that managers fall into a dangerous trap when they continue to perform tasks they love from a previous role. And it says that to not "let go" is to give in to a controlling tendency that robs staff of development opportunities. But not everyone agrees.
Today's increasingly knowledge-driven,...
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Let's face it: we love a good story-the twists and turns, the surprise endings, the unforgettable characters-but have you ever paused to think about your own story?
Who's telling it? Where's it heading? And why doesn't it feel as exciting as the ones you read or watch? No dragons, no spaceships, no time travel-seriously!
Have you ever felt like your own story lost its plot? Maybe you've taken a wrong turn and wandered too far off the map. Or perhaps...
13) Your Storytelling Potential: The Underground Guide to Finally Writing a Great Screenplay or Novel
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Writers seeking to create novels and screenplays with genuine layers and depth will find essential insight in Mitchell German's Your Storytelling Potential!
After studying filmmaking and screenwriting at NYU-one of the premier film studies programs in the United States (if not the world)-Mitchell German graduated with a complete doctrine on storytelling theory in his arsenal; yet his screenplays still lacked the potency he desired. He spent ten years...
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