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    The Secrets of Story: Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating Readers
    The Secrets of Story: Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating Readers
    The Secrets of Story: Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating Readers
    Audiobook12 hours

    The Secrets of Story: Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating Readers

    Written by Matt Bird

    Narrated by Eric Michael Summerer

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    About this audiobook

    The Secrets of Story is a revolutionary and comprehensive writing guide for the 21st Century, focused on clever ways to get an audience to fully identify with an all-too-human hero. Authors will learn to how to cut through pop culture noise and win over a jaded modern audience by rediscovering the heart of writing: shaping stories that ring true to our shared understanding of human nature. Providing conversational advice that spans multiple disciplines-from fiction to film to creative non-fiction-Bird's insightful techniques allow characters to come alive and stories to reach a new level of appeal.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateNov 1, 2016
    ISBN9781681683331
    The Secrets of Story: Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating Readers

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    • 5/5
      Thought provoking and detailed - crammed full of intelligent advice and really well narrated too

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Creative informative relevant innovative I’m going to be read and reread this book again and again

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    • 5/5
      Absolutely fantastic book, Eric (the narrator in audiobook) is really good.

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    • 5/5
      This book has a wealth of tools and insights into the craft of writing fiction. I'm going to get a printed copy, which I plan to keep next to my writing desk.

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    • 4/5
      Its a really good way to have more tools on writting.
    • 5/5
      Very great i enjoyed it, and the voice is good for the book
    • 5/5
      This extremely helpful book offers dozens of examples, making the topics it covers and the tips it offers more understandable and applicable. If being a better writer is your goal, regardless of what area of writing, this book delivers.
    • 5/5
      This should be the first, second or last book any writer or story teller should read. The philosophy within it spills over from story telling into the narrative of our life. I got a lot from this book.
    • 5/5
      The book is written by a screen writer and most of the examples are from TV and films. However this book can also apply to writing books.
    • 2/5
      On one hand, listening to this book was a good way to immerse myself in the craft of writing so that I could brainstorm and problem-solve, but on the other hand, this is mostly just clichés in listicle form. The author has no other credits to his name (as far as I can tell) and uses negative examples of movies he didn’t like to prove his points, which I found tacky.