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The Structure of Story: How to Write Great Stories by Focusing on What Really Matters - Hardcover | Diverse Reads

The Structure of Story: How to Write Great Stories by Focusing on What Really Matters

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What do all great stories have in common? What techniques do great writers use? The Structure of Story details the specific writing tools that will help you recognize and apply the patterns of great stories.

ISBN-13: 9781735603827

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Kiingo

Publication Date: 11-14-2020

Pages: 434

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Tools, Not Rules

2. First Principles of Story

I. The Blueprints

Starting With an Idea

3. Plotting From Dramatic Tension

Desire, Opposition, and Conflict

Fear in Drama

The Protagonist and the Antagonist

Structural Opposition of Desire

Dramatic Tension and the Dramatic Question

Stakes

Manipulating Information

Suspense

Surprise

Promises

Tension

Explicit Tension

Implicit Tension

Plotting From a Dramatic Question