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The Writer’s Compass: From Story Map to Finished Draft
Published by Writer’s Digest Books
June 2011
How to Write the Story You Want to Tell in 7 Stages
Just as surveyors use a compass to map the known world, The Writer’s Compass teaches writers to use their intuition as an internal compass to create their story map. This book simplifies Aristotle’s elements of good writing into easily applicable concepts. Each stage focuses on a major story weakness such as structure, characterization, and creating tension. Through thought-provoking questions, The Writer’s Compass trains the analytical side of the brain to be creative and to write the story the writer wants to tell—in 7 stages.
Throughout my life, other than my faith and my children, there has been one constant: I love writing. I love teaching writing. I love talking about writing. I love sharing writing with others.
Now, after nearly three decades of grappling with learning to write well and learning to write in many formats, The Writer’s Compass: From Story Map to Finished Draft in 7 Stages is my way of sharing what I’ve learned with other writers. The Writer’s Compass comes from the culmination of hundreds of classes, workshops, seminars, books, and two master’s degrees in writing.
In the book you will find:
- Diagrams on the elements of good structure
- Diagrams for creating story maps
- The 7-Stage development process
- Picture maps
- Exercises and questions to help you develop ideas
- Examples of screen, television, and playwriting formats and how they differ from novels and short stories
- Motivation to start writing
- Ideas about living as a writer
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