"Seven Steps to Story"
"Seven Steps to Story"
How to plot a story in an afternoon (even if you've never done it before).
Seven Steps to Story is a 52-page pdf with a free workbook, that guides you through the process of plotting a storyline for a picture-book (or any other story, including your children’s evening bedtime story, a short story, a novel, an opera or even a screenplay).
You can access the free workbook through this shop by simply adding it to your cart before checkout.
Here are some of the storytelling tools you'll find in Seven Steps to Story
the science of why stories are so important for us as humans (pg 8)
how stories and emotions work hand-in-hand (pg 9 and 38)
how to build a compelling, multi-faceted hero, faults and all (pg 14)
why your hero needs a problem ... right from the start (pg 20)
step-by-step development of your character’s driving desire (pg 25)
what you must NEVER do (pg 30)
why some stories fail (pg 48)
how to eliminate that saggy midsection (without the gym!) (pg 58)
the only way to make you readers ADORE your hero (pg 59)
and the big myth-buster: You need to plot the ending last, right? Wrong! (pg 46)
And that's just a small fraction of what you'll find out.
I've also made it easy for you to apply the strategies right away.
You can even apply them as your read through the guide for the first time, because I have created a free workbook that follows the guide, step by step (with plenty of space for scribbles). You can access the free workbook through this shop.