27 Essential Principles Of Story

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<b>“So often people ask me if there’s a book on story I can recommend. This is the one. I can’t recommend it highly enough.”––Alexa Junge, writer/producer, <i>Friends</i>, <i>Sex and the City</i>, <i>The West Wing</i></b> &nbsp; <b>A master class of 27 lessons, drawn from 27 diverse narratives, for novelists, storytellers, filmmakers, graphic designers, and more. </b>Author Daniel Joshua Rubin unlocks the secrets of what makes a story work, and then shows how to understand and use these principles in your own writing. The result is “an invaluable resource” (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review), offering priceless advice like escalate risk, with an example from <i>Pulp Fiction</i>. <b>Write characters to the top of their intelligence</b>, from the Eminem song “Stan.” <b>Earn transformations</b>, from Alison Bechdel’s <i>Fun Home</i>. <b>Attack your theme</b>, from <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i>. Insightful, encouraging, filled with attitude, and, as <i>Booklist</i> puts it, “perfect for any writer lookin