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I have the exact same problem. Never been good at telling stories. I have two recommendations for books: - Story Craft - Jack Hart - Story: Substance, Structu
by q-base 5y ago
I have the exact same problem. Never been good at telling stories. I have two recommendations for books:
- Story Craft - Jack Hart
- Story: Substance, Structure, Style - Robert McKee
The first one focuses on non-fiction the other on fiction. I was partway through the second one when I got the first. My immediate want is to be able to write better non-fiction text for my blog-posts etc. So I wanted a more focused book on that subject. But I think I will finish the other as well at some point because there are shared principles across.
- yesenadam 5y agoThank you, I've started reading the Jack Hart, looks great. It's about narrative non-fiction, like in journalism or history. (My favourite book genre is essays - mostly non-narrative non-fiction.) I've loved Story for a long time, one of my favourite books. It's full of wisdom, but note that it focuses on writing, analysing and understanding movies–its full title is Story: Substance, structure, style and the principles of screenwriting.