Help Me Step Bro: Creative Prompts For Quality Movies (Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books For Adults)) - Softcover

Gosse, Brad

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798595094474

Publisher: Independently published, 2021

Synopsis

Help Me Step Bro: Creative Prompts For Quality Movies... A Writing Workshop For A Very Specific Genre

You might be getting fired. You have unpaid parking tickets. Your attention is required somewhere and you cannot reach what you need without assistance. A specific category of film has addressed these scenarios with remarkable consistency and a very particular narrative solution. This book is a creative writing prompt collection for aspiring writers in that genre, offering situation after situation that begins with a problem and resolves in a direction that the adult film industry has found reliably resonant with its audience. The prompts are detailed. The genre conventions are respected. The step-brother is a narrative device.

This adult parody book is funny because the genre it parodies is, when examined with fresh eyes, one of the most consistent and formulaic narrative traditions in the history of storytelling. Every story has the same structure. Every situation begins the same way. The step-bro is always present and always prepared to help. This book celebrates that consistency with the enthusiasm it deserves and the creative writing framework it's clearly been asking for.

This Book IS For:

• Anyone who has ever encountered the step-bro genre and had the specific thought "this is incredibly formulaic and I am compelled to analyze it"
• Writers looking for a very specific narrative constraint to work within and build creative muscles against
• Fans of parody that addresses a subject by treating it with the utmost narrative seriousness
• Gift-givers who want to acknowledge a cultural phenomenon that everyone is aware of and nobody discusses at dinner

This Book Is NOT For:

• Anyone who was not aware this genre existed until just now and would prefer to return to that state
• Serious screenwriting educators who have strong feelings about creative writing prompts and their appropriate subject matter
• People who will receive this and feel the need to explain to everyone in the room what it references and why
• Anyone giving a book at an event where the cultural reference point might not be universally shared

Appropriate For:

• Bachelorette parties... the step-bro genre is practically the bachelorette party's ambient soundtrack
• White elephant exchanges where the group skews toward people who have an internet connection and a sense of humor about it
• Gag gifts for anyone who has ever made a reference to this genre in conversation and gotten too much recognition back
• Creative writing circles that want to expand their prompt library into underrepresented narrative traditions

Why Buy This

The step-bro genre has generated more content than most literary traditions combined, and not one minute of it has ever been accompanied by a proper creative writing curriculum. This book corrects that gap. It provides the framework, the scenario prompts, and the narrative conventions of an entire school of storytelling that has been wildly successful without ever receiving the academic attention it clearly deserves. That gap has been addressed. You're welcome, literature.

At the price of a budget paperback, you get a creative writing manual for a genre that has already proven its commercial viability. Whether you buy it as an actual writing resource, a gag gift, or a conversation piece, it will deliver. The step-bro genre has never needed better writers. It has always needed writers, period. This is their guide.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798595094474
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 27