Character and Structure: An Unholy Alliance - Softcover

Andrews, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1925803058 ISBN 13: 9781925803051

Publisher: Creative Manuscript Services, 2019

Synopsis

Is your story creating enough impact?

Like starcrossed lovers, character and structure are polar opposites, something many writers struggle to reconcile. Yet despite their differences they’re the twin foundations of storytelling and work together to engage your audience’s heart and mind. To create compelling stories, you have to master both character and structure.

Writing coach, manuscript assessor and author Chris Andrews has condensed decades of storytelling experience into an easy-to-follow guide that clearly demonstrates how practical storytelling works, and why getting it right is so important for reaching your audience.

Character and Structure: The Foundations of Fiction, clearly shows you what goes where in a story, explains why, and demonstrates how effective it can be by using compelling examples from a range of successful stories.

Easy and fun to read, Character and Structure breaks storytelling down to its basics, ensuring you have the knowledge and grounding to apply it yourself.

Each story point is illustrated with examples from a range of movies and books, demonstrating that no matter your genre, the foundations of successful storytelling remain the same.

If you want to master storytelling and reach your intended audience, buy a copy of Character and Structure today and put yourself on the path to writing compelling and engaging stories your audience can't get enough of.

About this title

About the Author

Chris Andrews owns Creative Manuscript Services, is the Past President of the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild (now Vice President) and involved in the Conflux speculative fiction convention. He has been a Writing Mentor for the Winter Writers Retreat for the past three years. In his spare time writes speculative fiction.

If you would like to contact Chris, he can be contacted at chris@chrisandrews.me

From the Back Cover

Like star-crossed lovers, Character and Structure are often considered polar opposites, something many writers struggle to reconcile. Yet Despite their differences, they're the twin foundations of story and work together to engage your audience's heart and mind respectively. To master story you have to master both character and structure. Illustrated with examples from successful stories across a range of genres and decades, Character & Structure: An Unholy Alliance helps you find and build your story ideas into the engaging narrative your audience expects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Creative Manuscript Services
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1925803058
• ISBN 13: 9781925803051
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186