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Engineers make models of aircraft. Architects make models of buildings. This book will teach writers how to make models of their stories to plan the work or to analyze the results. Martin L. Shoemaker (writer of Today I Am Carey and The Last Dance) brings his 30 years of software modeling expertise and tools to the task of crafting fiction.
In Making Story Models, you'll learn how to read and draw story models to...
- Analyze existing stories to figure out how they work-and why they don't.
- Plan new stories.
- Figure out why you're stuck in your story.
Martin L Shoemaker
Martin L. Shoemaker is a programmer who writes on the side...or maybe it's the other way around. He told stories to imaginary friends and learned to type on his brother's manual typewriter even though he couldn't reach the keys. (He types with the keyboard in his lap still today.) He couldn't imagine any career but writing fiction...until his algebra teacher said, "This is a program. You should write one of these."
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