Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schmidt

From Barnes & Noble

Learning to create plausible plots and subplots is an essential writing skill: A story without structure is an amorphous blob. Victoria Schmidt's Story Structure Architect is designed to shepherd struggling authors through each seemingly daunting step of the structuring process: from identifying characters and plot tension; to generating conflict, weaving in subplots, and resolving your story.

From the Publisher

"Story Structure Architect is your comprehensive reference to the classic recurring story structures used by every great author throughout the ages. You'll find master models for characters, plots, and complication motifs, along with guide lines for combining them to create unique short stories, novels, scripts, or plays." Especially featured are the standard dramatic situations inspired by Georges Polti's well-known 19[superscript th]-century work, The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations. But author Victoria Schmidt puts a 21[superscript st]-century spin on these timeless classics and offers fifty-five situations to inspire your creativity and allow you even more writing freedom. Story Structure Architect will give you the mold and then help you break it.

Product Details

• Table of Contents

Table of Contents