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Larry Brooks
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Or… YOUR Story in Nine Critical Sentences
The best way to teach a technique is to show it working relative to something you already understand.
What better way, then, than to introduce you to an immensely powerful story development tool – I hesitate to call it a trick, though it feels like magic when you use it – than to apply this little ditty to The Hunger Games.
Any story – the whole story –...
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Story Engineering: Mastering the 6 Core Competencies of Successful Writing
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2011
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Darkness Bound
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2000
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Bait and Switch
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2004
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Pressure Points
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2001
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Serpent's Dance
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Story Structure - Demystified
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2009
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Whisper of the Seventh Thunder
by Larry Brooks, Lloyd L. Corricelli , Don Mousseau 3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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2010
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101 Slightly Unpredictable Tips for Novelists and Screenwriters
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2009
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The Seminar
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2011
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Larry Brooks' Guide to Marketing Your Business Online
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“Most of us are one of two things: blind or chicken-shit. We wouldn't know a crossroads in our lives if it had a set of stoplights and a Denny's.”
― Larry Brooks, Bait and Switch
― Larry Brooks, Bait and Switch
“But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying attention, which is seldom because, as writers, paying attention is what we do. We are scribes to the ticking of the days, and we have a job to do. We are not at peace unless we are doing it.”
― Larry Brooks
― Larry Brooks
“If you’ve ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don’t write as well as you do yet are rich and famous while you struggle onward, this is the reason. They are great directors.”
― Larry Brooks
― Larry Brooks
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