This was recommended to me by Philip Athans's blog on writing fantasy and science fiction. Larry Brooks spends a LOT of your time, touting how crucial it is to follow his guidelines (especially if you want to ever get published, ever). Still he gives us a lot of good info. I learned the difference between "pantsing" and "planning" and how to do the latter. As expected, most writers use a custom combination of both methods. He probably.
I felt like I couldn't confidently begin my current novel until I finished Story Engineering. By the time I was done, I had a pad full of notes, a beat sheet, and clear plans to execute each of my plot points. It got me interested in watching movies, as a study in storytelling. I look for Larry's core competencies in every movie I watch and every book I read and, according to him, most of them should have never been made.
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