Comments on: Story Structure Series: #1 — Introducing the Four Parts of Story

By: Blueprint Series Part 10: Fleshing Out Part 2 « Hunting High and Low

Blueprint Series Part 10: Fleshing Out Part 2 « Hunting High and Low — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:14:36 +0000

[...] all comes out of what I learned from author, Larry Brooks. If you haven’t checked out his Story Structure series, bought the ebook, and subscribed to his blog, let me just suggest those steps again. I don’t [...]

By: Blueprint Series Part 5: Main Plot Points « Hunting High and Low

Blueprint Series Part 5: Main Plot Points « Hunting High and Low — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:55:12 +0000

[...] all comes out of a brilliant series of articles on Story Structure by author, Larry Brooks. Click here for Part 1. Read the whole series, then buy his book on the subject and read some more. If you want to know [...]

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:45:28 +0000

The Road Warrior (1981) has this 4 part progression in spades. Part 1, Max is the orphan, with no allies (aside from his dog). Part 2 Max is allied with the refinery village, but none of them no what to do to escape from Humongous and his evil crew (wanderer), Part 3 Max hatches the plan to fetch the rig and fights off the evil crew to bring it back to the villagers (warrior), Part 4 Max is near death, but drives the rig one last time to divert the bad guys from the villagers so they can escape. (martyr)

By: My Only Friend The End « Hunting High and Low

My Only Friend The End « Hunting High and Low — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:53:19 +0000

[...] been doing things so much differently. I understand so much more about story structure (thanks to Larry Brooks, I have to say), that when I went to do an outline, I actually understood what kinds of scenes to [...]

By: RL

RL — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:28:23 +0000

LOVE the breakdown of the middle into Response and Attack. What a great way to look at that!

By: Carla Gade

Carla Gade — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:49:50 +0000

This was very helpful. You had me a little nervous until you mentioned how this applies to the 3 act structure by combining parts 2 & 3. Thanks for the advice.

By: 43 Most Inspiring Writing Advice Posts of 2009

43 Most Inspiring Writing Advice Posts of 2009 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:05:23 +0000

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By: Overview of Larry Brooks’s Story Structure » Jordan McCollum

Overview of Larry Brooks’s Story Structure » Jordan McCollum — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:27:06 +0000

[...] structure is in four parts with three turning points separating them (plus two “pinch points”). Each part of the [...]

By: Story Structure « The Writing Land

Story Structure « The Writing Land — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:38:12 +0000

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By: Paul Chernoch

Paul Chernoch — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:50:41 +0000

I have been struggling with a massive rewrite, and nothing I have tried completely fixed the problem. I came across this article and attempted to fit your structure to my novel. It fit, but in a way that revealed the problem: my part one is twice as long as any of the other parts. I do not know if I will succeed in fixing it, but now I know the problem.