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Damn Fine Story
Damn Fine Story: Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative | Chuck Wendig
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HOOK YOUR AUDIENCE WITH UNFORGETTABLE STORYTELLING What do Luke Skywalker, John McClane, and a lonely dog on Hookipa Beach have in common? Simply put, we care about them. Great storytelling is making readers care about your characters, the choices they make, and what happens to them. Its making your audience feel the tension and emotion of a situation right alongside your protagonist. And to tell a damn fine story, you need to understand why and how that caring happens. Using a mix of personal stories, pop fiction examples, and traditional storytelling terms, New York Times best-selling author Chuck Wendig will help you internalize the feel of powerful storytelling. In Damn Fine Story, you'll explore: Freytag's Pyramid for visualizing story structure - and when to break away from traditional storytelling forms Character relationships and interactions as the basis of every strong plot - no matter the form or genre Rising and falling tension that pulls the audience through to the climax and conclusion of the story Developing themes as a way to craft characters with depth Whether you're writing a novel, screenplay, video game, comic, or even if you just like to tell stories to your friends and family over dinner, this funny and informative guide is chock-full of examples about the art and craft of storytelling - and how to write a damn fine story of your own.
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K.Wielechowski
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Hilarious and helpful, Chuck Wendig does what he does best: tells a hell of a story. The book is full of tips, tricks, and examples of how to improve your own narratives.

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thatkruegergirl

Who we are is what matters most. We are a bundle of thoughts and feelings born of both nature and nurture. We are a complex tangle of inaccuracies, inconsistencies and ideas. We are bloated with certainties and haunted by uncertainties. We each have genetic code, but in a sense we have a memetic code too: an uncharted map, an emotional genome, that informs us and completes us even as we feel woefully incomplete. That‘s what goes into your story.

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AwkwardlyAlive
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Excited to read this bit by bit while I work through a round of edits on my novel. Chuck Wendig‘s blog has always been a go-to for me and I have a feeling that this book kicks all sorts of ass. #amwriting #amediting

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DrJAdMerricksson
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😆😆😂😂

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thatkruegergirl

“Writing is a vital, elegant mechanism—but it is not the reason we do what we do, or at least not most of us. Writing isn‘t just for the pretty words, or for the well-constructed sentences, or for the way the poetry of it looks in our mind‘s eye and sounds in our mind‘s ear. Writing is a means to an end.”

RaimeyGallant Nice quote. 6y
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thatkruegergirl
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Finally got my hands on this and am psyched to dig in!

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Lindy
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“Between the character‘s problem and the character‘s solution to that problem lies the story. That is the character‘s quest. Implicit in the quest is a story....When storytellers have an exterior framework into which they then plug the characters, the characters operate as secondary, as afterthoughts. And the audience has no one to ground them in the story.
Characters are everything.
Characters drive the narrative.”

Lindy Painting is by Sam Fullbrook, seen at the Queensland Art Gallery. 6y
shawnmooney ❤️ the painting! 6y
Lindy @shawnmooney Isn‘t it wonderful? I used to feel kind of silly taking photos of paintings. I‘ve come to accept that it‘s my way of revisiting the impact seeing the original had on me. 6y
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Jokila
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TamarackTrail Any comment about this one? Sounds interesting...... 6y
Jokila @TamarackTrail not yet—My sister just gave it to me yesterday as an early Xmas gift! I‘ve only read the introduction lol 😋 6y
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DrJAdMerricksson
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DrJAdMerricksson
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Autograph haul from Tuesday past!

JazzFeathers 😱😱😱😍 6y
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