Story Engineering
Mastering the 6 Core Competencies of Successful Writing
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Narrated by:
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Chris Sorensen
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Written by:
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Larry Brooks
About this listen
The vast majority of writers begin the storytelling process with only a partial understanding of where to begin. Some labor their entire lives without ever learning that successful stories are as dependent upon good engineering as they are artistry. But the truth is, unless you are master of the form, function, and criteria of successful storytelling, sitting down and pounding out a first draft without planning is an ineffective way to begin.
Story Engineering starts with the criteria and the architecture of storytelling, the engineering and design of a story - and uses it as the basis for narrative. The greatest potential of any story is found in the way six specific aspects of storytelling combine and empower each other on the page. When rendered artfully, they become a sum in excess of their parts.
You'll learn to wrap your head around the big pictures of storytelling at a professional level through a new approach that shows how to combine these six core competencies, which include four elemental competencies of concept, character, theme, and story structure (plot) and two executional competencies of scene construction and writing voice. The true magic of storytelling happens when these six core competencies work together in perfect harmony. And the best part? Anyone can do it!
©2011 Larry Brooks (P)2020 TantorWhat listeners say about Story Engineering
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Bob Hodder
- 2020-11-21
Great content. Terrible execution of narration.
I read the book and kept it on kindle along with Storyfix and Story Physics by the same author. All of these books are highly recommended by me for aspiring writers. So I figured I think I will go ahead and spend an audible credit on the audiobook because sometimes I’ll do that, listen to a couple of chapters of a self knowledge type book before I go to sleep or on a long drive. And because I already knew the work, I did not sample the narration. Big mistake. Not that the words are unclear. It’s like listening to someone try to act that can read the script but has no acting talent. I’m really struggling to even listen to any of it it’s so smarmy. Buy the book. Read it to yourself into your voice memo app and you’ll be ahead in the game. That’s what I think I’ll do because like I said, the content is really good.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Jae
- 2022-07-26
Worst narrator, blah content
I should have listened to the negative reviews first. The narrator sounds like a snooty robot that makes any useful content impossible to digest. I even tried upping the playback speed but that didn't help. On top of that ,the audiobook is almost 12 hours long and the first hour was spent talking up how awesome the 6 core competencies are without telling you what they are. I know why too. When they are finally revealed I was utterly underwhelmed. They are BASIC AF. If you're going to give me the world's most boring narration at least pack the book with good content. 6CC is only a new shiny term for some of the most basic storytelling necessities, things that if you've studied writing craft at all you would know. Maybe for an absolute beginner this would be helpful, but all I got from 2 hours of listening was that pantsing is bad (I'm not even a panster but I was really turned off by the author's blanket opinion), and that the author is thoroughly impressed with himself for his heavily padded book.
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