What you need to know when you are ready to go beyond “how to write a novel”
How to Craft a Great Story takes you step by step through the process of creating a compelling and coherent plot and structure. It covers such basics as the traditional story arcs and such advanced information as finding balance and marrying structure and form. Each chapter contains a diagnostic test, case studies, practical exercises and
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Chris Sykes is a member of the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters as well as the Society of Authors and he was at one time deputy chair of The Writers Guild of Great Britain. He currently divides his time between directing summer schools for the University of Sussex and teaching creative writing for a number of institutions including the University of Oxford and the City Literary Institute, London. Sykes has written and extensively published poetry in the United Kingdom and abroad, is a former BBC scriptwriter, and has also written and directed a number of plays in the West End and elsewhere.