Nail Your Story: Add Tension, Build Emotion, and Keep Your Readers Addicted (Growth Hacking For Storytellers, #2)

Nail Your Story: Add Tension, Build Emotion, and Keep Your Readers Addicted (Growth Hacking For Storytellers, #2) - Monica Leonelle There are so many books on writing, and while they're helpful in their own respects, this one filled in a lot of the missing puzzle pieces for me. The author calls it deep alignment, which is basically pulling the theme through the entire makeup of the book to create resonance with the reader. The thing that helped me the most was talking about the relationship between theme and goals/motivations and the fatal flaw of the character. By digging deep in this area, it's easy to begin creating an outline, since you know what message you want to get across and how to chip away at the fatal flaw in the protagonist. Before this book, I always had what the author calls a "murky middle" - I knew where I wanted to begin and where I wanted to end, and I may even have that centerpiece moment, but tying the ends together still felt blank to me. This book took everything one step further to create a much clearer path. Paired with [b:Structuring Your Novel: Essential Keys for Writing an Outstanding Story|18371991|Structuring Your Novel Essential Keys for Writing an Outstanding Story|K.M. Weiland|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1377376716s/18371991.jpg|25976295] and a post I recently read about Ring Composition (which I can't find now - argh! - but the theory is simple - mirror elements in ABCABC or ABCCBA format), and I've got a load of tools that can help me weave a plot worth writing. :)