Beating the Story - How to Map, Understand, and Elevate Any Narrative

The most compelling stories move us emotionally Up and down between hope and fear in ways we don t always expect but that you can harness as a writer editor and critic This book shows you how to track map and understand the rhythm of a story Whether you re writing or rewriting editing a manuscript or dismantling your favorite television episode Beating the Story helps you understand how stories get hammered into shape Beating the Story combines Laws insightful and articulate analysis of story beats with all-new transition beats and icons to do for fiction and screenplays what his Hamlet s Hit Points did for narrative games Read it and see how to map understand and elevate any narrative

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