Story Structure Architect: a writer's guide to building dramatic situations & compelling characters - Softcover

Schmidt, Victoria Lynn

 
9781582973258: Story Structure Architect: a writer's guide to building dramatic situations & compelling characters
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1582973253 ISBN 13: 9781582973258
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

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!

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The author of 45 Master Characters, Victoria Lynn Schmidt, Ph.D. holds degrees in film production and creative writing and also has a Ph.D. in psychology. Victoria also works locally as a story analyst and writer.

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Verlag
Penguin Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1582973253
ISBN 13 
9781582973258
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
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