Character and Structure

Looking for a way to outline, edit or restructure your story based on what works for your audience? Character and Structure is your single source of truth for aligning character with story structure in a way that’ll please your audience.

Character and Structure are often considered polar opposites, yet in truth they’re more like star-crossed lovers – inseparable.

When you seamlessly combine character (why your story matters) with structure (a huge part of your audience’s expectations), you can engage your audience’s emotions and ensure they care about your story.

At it’s core, storytelling begins with the promise you’re making, the reason people should care, and an understanding of how character combines with structure to ensure you’re delivering a story that works.

Character and Structure: An Unholy Alliance shows you how to focus your story, and explains in clear terms all the story points you need to know about and how to use them.

It breaks down familiar examples from books and movies and uses them to illustrate how story points work, how to be creative with them, and how they’re used to build a story and deliver on the promise you’re making to your audience.

If you ask yourself the right questions before you write, most of what’s hard about storytelling gets simplified. This book is full of questions you may not have thought to ask, but they’re essential to creating a successful story.

If you want to create engaging stories, you’ll need to understand how character works with structure in what many would consider an unholy alliance.