Course: Story Structure: Essential Building Blocks of Your Craft

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For the second year in a row, I’ll teach “Story Structure: An Essential Building Blocks of Your Craft Title” as an online email course. Here’s the details! Hope to see you there!

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Story Structure: Essential Building Blocks of Your Craft

Presented by: Beth Barany
Dates: May 6, – 30th, 2019
Fee: OIRW Member $25 | Non-Member $35
Register here for OIRW members. Register here for non-members.

Course Description

We may be wired for story, but we often don’t understand its structure or how a story is put together.

The good news is story lives in us unconsciously. The other good news is that we can learn the components of story structure and then apply it to our creative process. Learning story structure is one of the essential building blocks of craft.

Since one of the profound purposes of stories is to allow readers to safely test out possibilities, let’s give them a great ride.

There are lots of story structure models. In this course, we’ll cover five story models, so that you can…

Have more choice in how you plan your stories.

When you understand the building blocks of story, you can have more flexibility in how plan, craft, and edit your stories.

Decide what happens next in your story with your character and plot.

Stories are told in an organic sequence, organic to story and also to your individual story. Readers may not consciously know what’s missing, but they will know when we’ve forgotten or skipped a step, and that will throw them out of the story.

Surprise the reader.

Readers want the same but different. Agents and editors too!

Gain clarity, purpose, and confidence.

Step outside yourself and your story so that you can plan better (if you plan your stories) and can edit better.

Make a personal story road map.

When you understand story arc, character change and the external circumstances that spark that change, then you can break story structure on purpose. The old “know the rules so you can break them” adage.

In this course, we’ll cover the building blocks of story from several different perspectives, discuss why each is useful, and brainstorm how they can help you plan or edit your story.

You’ll also have an opportunity to share your story’s structure and look at your stories in a new light. This may help you make improvements or come up with new stories.

The story structures we’ll cover include:

    • The Three-Act Structure
    • The Hero’s Journey
    • The Virgin Archetypal Journey
    • The 5-Point Plot Structure
    • The Five Commandments of Storytelling

Hope to see you there with your creativity, curiosity, and plenty of ink.

REGISTER

Register here for OIRW members.

Register here for non-members.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Award-winning novelist, Master NLP Practitioner and certified creativity coach for writers, Beth Barany teaches courses packed with useful hands-on information that you can implement right away.

Beth runs the Writer’s Fun Zone blog, for and by creative writers.

She is also the author of The Writer’s Adventure Guide, Overcome Writer’s Block, and Twitter for Authors. Her latest book for authors is Plan Your Novel Like A Pro.

Discerning, individualized support in a group environment for the benefit of each person and of the whole is Beth’s goal in each of her workshops and courses.

OTHER COURSES

Other courses I teach are at Barany School of Fiction, including the webinar version with handouts, teacher support, course bonuses, and membership into Fellowship of the Pen here.

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