[HN Gopher] 'How to Tell a Story' Review: Aristotle in the Write...
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       'How to Tell a Story' Review: Aristotle in the Writers' Room
        
       Author : apollinaire
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2022-07-18 01:33 UTC (21 hours ago)
        
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       | Multicomp wrote:
       | Fellow writers who came here hoping for writing insight and maybe
       | got not as much as you were hoping because you've read about
       | elemental western story design before, wanna trade books that
       | helped you write better?
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       | Techniques of the Selling Writer
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       | Fantasy Fiction Formula (how I learned said elemental western
       | story design) and its more generic Fiction Formula Plotting
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       | Scene & Structure
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       | Save the Cat writes a novel
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       | Body beats to build on
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       | Getting Things Done (not specifically writing but keeps me on
       | track)
        
         | morley wrote:
         | George Saunders' recent book "A Swim in a Pond in the Rain" is
         | great: he goes through four classic Russian short stories and
         | dissects how they work.
         | 
         | He also has a Substack where he does the same for other
         | stories, in addition to answering misc questions.
        
           | gauravphoenix wrote:
           | link to substack: https://georgesaunders.substack.com
        
       | crotho wrote:
        
       | neonate wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/C5CKS
        
       | thenerdhead wrote:
       | I was hoping that Aristotle would tell us to join an improv club
       | in college or randomly take comedy lessons in our 30s, but
       | instead we should become one with the metaphor.
       | 
       | In all seriousness, I believe comedy improv both short form and
       | long form can help writers in many different ways. How to
       | heighten, what is "heat and weight", understanding formats like
       | the Harold, callbacks, "Yes, And", and many more.
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       | These all complement "metaphors".
        
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