Larry Brooks

Reinvigorate Your Fiction! You've written the first draft of your novel or screenplay, and you've released it into the world: to your critique group, to your most trusted beta readers, or even to an agent or an editor. But something's wrong. You're not getting the glowing response you had expected, o...

Inside Story Physics, you'll learn how to:

• Understand and harness the six storytelling forces that are constantly at work in your fiction.
• Transform your story idea into a dramatically compelling concept.
• Optimize the choices you make in terms of character, conflict, subplot, subtext, and more to render the best possible outcome.

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.