How to Build Plots That Grab Your Readers and Won't Let Go - By Building and Integrating Characters, Story Arcs, and Engaging Themes Ever wonder what makes a great book or movie different from a pitiful excuse for entertainment? Mostly, it starts with a plot. But what makes a plot work? From months of my own studying the vast numbers of approaches to plotting, it's clear that there is still a wide gulf between the mechanics of a plot and having a working framework usable for any writer. This led to the study of two authors who had already done their own studies of which plots made successful entertainment, and actually built their own still-popular plot generators based on this knowledge. Many well-known and obscure writers have used these methods instead of being dogged by ""writer's block."" The anwers to what makes a great plot are simple and few. The bonus in this book is giving you your own plot generator to help you when you're stuck. Get Your Copy Today.

Content Structure for Flash Fiction has never been so simple and fast. What if all story ideas were able to be boiled down to a single formula? Wycliffe A. Hill had this idea in the 1930's when no less than Cecil B. DeMille rejected one of his stories because ""it had a good narrative, but no drama."" This led Hill to research what made a dramatic story. Diving into the problem that the growing movie industry had for volume treatments to feed their industry, Hill created a device to harvest these many different possibilities for plot creation. The original ""Genie"" he produced was to explore the idea of a formulaic basis for stories. For Flash Fiction, the work is even more daunting, as it's not a question of filling in more conflict, action, or romance by adding words. The object of this book is more for education of the author in the basics of how to string a plot together, and maybe a solution to any ""writer's block."" Win the day. Get Your Copy Now.

Escape Writer's Block and Generate Original Content Structure in Minutes Using the 31 Basic Dramatic Situations Common To All Fiction Stories Content Structure for Dramatic Fiction has never been so simple and fast. What if all story ideas were able to be boiled down to a single formula? Wycliffe A. Hill had this idea in the 1930's when no less than Cecil B. DeMille rejected one of his stories because ""it had a good narrative, but no drama."" This led Hill to research that lead creating a ""genie"" to bring new possibilities to authors. To inspire combinations they have never though of before. Reviews tell of writers breaking through their Writer's Block to find new inspiration for plots they had never imagined before. Hill notes that unfortunately, most stories tend to fall into paths other stories already travelled. This ""Genie"" enables fresh, new combinations of characters, obstacles, and climaxes never before seen on print or in movies. Get Your Copy Now.

All the hard-earned storytelling skills of Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of Petty Mason and still the world’s biggest-selling writer, are revealed in this informative, entertaining, and instructive book. The authors clearly present and analyze all the elements of narrative-character, plot, conflict, and resolution-as Gardner used them. Numerous extraordinary charts, diagrams , and outlines makes his hard-earned technical skills available to the reader in practical and useful forms. This book is ideal for Gardner collectors and fans, and equally for students of writing at all levels-would be writers, neophytes, and even published authors-for it offers one of the most practical and professional courses ever in storytelling technique.

In the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the seamstress. Today, it has come for the writer, physician, programmer, and attorney. Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In this provocative reflection on the shared pasts of literature and computer science, former Microsoft engineer and professor of comparative literature Dennis Yi Tenen provides crucial context for recent developments in AI, which holds important lessons for the future of humans living with smart technology. Intelligence expressed through technology should not be mistaken for a magical genie, capable of self-directed thought or action. Rather, in highly original and effervescent prose with a generous dose of wit, Yi Tenen asks us to read past the artifice—to better perceive the mechanics of collaborative work. Something as simple as a spell-checker or a grammar-correction tool, embedded in every word-processor, represents the culmination of a shared human effort, spanning centuries. Smart tools, like dictionaries and grammar books, have always accompanied the act of writing, thinking, and communicating. That these paper machines are now automated does not bring them to life. Nor can we cede agency over the creative process. With its masterful blend of history, technology, and philosophy, Yi Tenen’s work ultimately urges us to view AI as a matter of labor history, celebrating the long-standing cooperation between authors and engineers.

With complete certainty, I can tell you now - from my more than half-century of existence: Any and all successes, as well as all my disappointments are directly traced to the principles in this book. For any set-back or failure, I either didn't know these principles, didn't understand their power, or simply ignored them. For every success, I have tracked back to taking these exact steps laid out in this book - to achieve, acquire, or attain whatever it was I wanted to be or have. And that experience is why I'm bringing out this short book you can have to carry with you and review regularly. Inside Earl Nightingale's original "Strangest Secret" recording, he mentions several books that support these ideas. If you put them together, the length is around 700 pages of text. What you are reading here is around a hundred. And this is designed to be slim and still contain the power of the best references that can educate and reinforce the key success principles Nightingale recorded in 1956.