Publisher's Synopsis
A picture can launch a thousand words. Let Martin L. Shoemaker teach you how.
Engineers make models of aircraft. Architects make models of buildings. This book will teach writers how to make models of their stories to plan the work or to analyze the results. Martin L. Shoemaker (writer of Today I Am Carey and The Last Dance) brings his 30 years of software modeling expertise and tools to the task of crafting fiction. In Making Story Models, you'll learn how to read and draw story models to...- Analyze existing stories to figure out how they work-and why they don't.
- Plan new stories.
- Figure out why you're stuck in your story.
