Nailing Your Narrative: Using Story Structure To Tell Irresistible Stories

What You Will Learn?

• What do Jaws, Pride and Prejudice, The Hunger Games, and Les Miserables all have in common? Surprisingly, a lot more than you might think..
• That's because once you dig down beneath the surface of their plot and setting, great stories share a common core of narrative structure that taps into the way our brains are hardwired by organizing the critical moments of their stories in irresistible ways. Once you learn the fundamentals of great narrative structure your stories can have the exact same impact on your audience every single time..
• Working in story beats means so much more than simply outlining the events of your plot. It will ensure that you hit the key emotional and developmental milestones at exactly the right time throughout your story to create an unforgettable journey for your readers while freeing your creativity and imagination rather than forcing you to follow a rigid set of rules that don't always make sense for the story you're trying to tell. Most importantly, it takes the guesswork out of outlining your story, which lets you concentrate on the process of actually having fun writing and sharing it with the world..
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• I'm Justin Fike, author of ten novels and counting, mostly in the adventure fantasy series The Farshore Chronicles, as well as numerous short stories published in various anthologies and literary magazines. I've spent the past fifteen years learning and practicing all of the different tools and techniques that need to come together to create a great story. I did that first through some of the best academic creative writing programs in the world at Brown University and the Masters Degree program at Oxford University, and then I took all the things I had learned in the classroom and applied them in the writing and publishing my own books..
• Why this class:I created this class because in the years that I spent writing and publishing after completing the Masters in Creative Writing program at Oxford University I had to learn through trial and more than a bit of error how to practically apply the fundamental writing skills I learned there to the daunting, rewarding, and sometimes maddening process of planning, writing, and publishing a complete and compelling story..
• It wasn't until I spent several years teaching English and Creative Writing to fourth and fifth graders that I really discovered the simple, essential core components of a captivating narrative structure that consistently works across genres and styles, but once I did my writing went to a whole new level, and I'm excited to share that with you now to help your own writing do the same..