Episode 31 - From Aristotle to Stephen King. Story theory tips for your writer's toolbelt

The Creative Writer's Toolbelt

Mar 21 2015 | 00:18:07

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Show Notes

In this episode we condense about 2,300 years of story theory into ten minutes(!) and then look at four practical lessons we can apply to our writing, including how to make a great first impression with an opening line, why it's so important that we get our work into the best possible state, and how to tell whether a clever plot element really is as clever as we think it is.

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