Description
Standalone, non-fiction authorship
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Plotting
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Narrative Format
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Story Structure
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Traditional~Literary Forms
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Character Design
The Little Handbook of Narrative Frameworks
Seventeen proven structures to help writers shape unforgettable stories.
Why?
You have the idea. Characters are springing to mind, talking, acting, but what's their story?
You need a framework, a narrative plan that will carry the story from within. That is what every story hinges on. Where do you start, what happens in between, and how does it end?
How?
This book contains 17 separate frameworks, from the traditional to fairytales to those steeped in character growth. It's a banquet, and you get to sample each structure until you find the one that fills your story appetite.
You'll find outlines to plug your inspired ideas into. Experiment. The effort costs you only your imagination.
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Every storyteller has a plan, however vague it is.
The writer will start with an idea which may be wrapped around a character, an event, or a theme. In the process of developing the idea, the storyteller shapes a framework of sorts.
This book provides common frameworks that have been used since stories came to be an important part of culture, education, and entertainment. The popular heroic journey, one of the frameworks included, is an essential plot that numerous writers have used, whether consciously or not.
Each format offers opportunity for originality while meeting the reader’s desire for more of this type of story This book provides seventeen such frameworks, broken into three general types:
• traditional (ex. dream vision)
• fairy tale (ex. sleeping beauty)
• character-design (ex. code hero).
Each framework is explained in simple terms and is followed by a worksheet to help the writer develop the initial idea into a plot. Included in the description of each framework are suggestions about how to tweak for freshness.
Every storyteller has a plan. What’s yours?
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