Rapid Story Development: How to Use the Enneagram-Story Connection to Become a Master Storyteller

Lyons, Jeff

ISBN 10: 1138929700 / ISBN 13: 9781138929708

Published by Routledge, 2019

About this Item

PRINT ON DEMAND.

Seller Inventory # 18378034777

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rapid Story Development: How to Use the Enneagram-Story Connection to Become a Master Storyteller
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138929700
• ISBN 13: 9781138929708
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

This book offers a unique approach to storytelling, connecting the Enneagram system with classic story principles of character development, plot, and story structure to provide a seven-step methodology to achieve rapid story development. Using the nine core personality styles underlying all human thought, feeling, and action, it provides the tools needed to understand and leverage the Enneagram-Story Connection for writing success.

Author Jeff Lyons starts with the basics of the Enneagram system and builds with how to discover and design the critical story structure components of any story, featuring supporting examples of the Enneagram-Story Connection in practice across film, literature and TV. Readers will learn the fundamentals of the Enneagram system and how to utilize it to create multidimensional characters, master premise line development, maintain narrative drive, and create antagonists that are perfectly designed to challenge your protagonist in a way that goes beyond surface action to reveal the dramatic core of any story.

Lyons explores the use of the Enneagram as a tool not only for character development, but for story development itself. This is the ideal text for intermediate and advanced level screenwriting and creative writing students, as well as professional screenwriters and novelists looking to get more from their writing process and story structure.

About the Author

Jeff Lyons is a published author, screenwriter, and story consultant in the TV, film, and publishing industries. He is long-time creative writing instructor through Stanford University’s School of Continuing Education and is a regular guest lecturer through the UCLA Extension Writers Program. His writings on the craft of storytelling can also be found in leading industry trade magazines such as Writer’s Digest Magazine, Script Magazine, The Writer, and Writing Magazine (UK).