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Index
Cover
Praise for GREAT STORIES DON'T WRITE THEMSELVES
Also by Larry Brooks
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Part I: It's All in Your Head
1. The Mission of the Novel, and the Novelist
2. Developing a Criteria-Driven Nose for Story
3. What Happens When You Know
4. The Sound of the Writing Conversation
5. Realities, Odds, and Other Inconveniences
6. The Power of Storytelling Context
Part II: Navigating the Leap From Story Idea to Premise
7. The Eight Criteria for Premise
8. The Mission of Your Story Idea
9. The Idea-Fueled Premise
10. The Criteria for Concept
11. Context for Criteria-Driven Drafting
Part III: Criteria for the Parts of Parcel of Story Development
12. The Functional Mission of Story Structure
13. Contextual Application of the Four Quartiles
14. Structure-Enabled Characterization
15. Criteria for the Part 1 Set-Up Quartile
16. Criteria for the First Plot Point
17. Criteria for the Part 2 Hero’s Response
18. Criteria for the Mid-Block Pinch Points
19. Criteria for the Midpoint
20. Criteria for the Part 3 Hero’s Attack
21. Criteria for the Second Plot Point
22. Criteria for the Part 4 Resolution
Part IV: The Sum of the Parts
23. Criteria for Effective Scenes
24. Criteria for Professional Narrative Prose
25. Caveats, Exceptions, Contradictions
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Index
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