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A review by kapsar
Damn Fine Story: Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative by Chuck Wendig
5.0
This is the third or fourth writing book that I've read. Two have been on technical writing and one has been on the Snowflake method. Each book is useful in a specific context. The first two were for helping me professionally to create great help site material. While the Snowflake method has helped me with the managing the structure of the store. This book is something else. It's about how to tell the story that goes within that structure. Which, given that I'm working on a book right now, is really helpful.
This is not a dry technical book. It's not a "theory of writing" book that you might find at a university that sucks the life out of writing. It frames writing as means to tell a story. It does this through a lot of stories. Funny stories. Stories Chuck has lived. It also does this through stories most people have read or, at least, watched. So if you haven't seen the original Star Wars trilogy or Die Hard you're in for some serious spoilers.
The book provides a number of story telling rules, which I plan to reference frequently. Some of these, I think, are pretty intuitive, some are not. Or maybe, I've just gotten lucky with the writing I've done so far and happened to stumble upon them.
If you're thinking of doing any story telling, either as part of a white collar job or as a professional story teller or just want to tell more interesting stories at parties, this book is for you. He uses stories that he's told at parties a ton of times as a way to frame many of the rules he offers. So this book can certainly help with your boring stories that make my eyes glaze over.
This is not a dry technical book. It's not a "theory of writing" book that you might find at a university that sucks the life out of writing. It frames writing as means to tell a story. It does this through a lot of stories. Funny stories. Stories Chuck has lived. It also does this through stories most people have read or, at least, watched. So if you haven't seen the original Star Wars trilogy or Die Hard you're in for some serious spoilers.
The book provides a number of story telling rules, which I plan to reference frequently. Some of these, I think, are pretty intuitive, some are not. Or maybe, I've just gotten lucky with the writing I've done so far and happened to stumble upon them.
If you're thinking of doing any story telling, either as part of a white collar job or as a professional story teller or just want to tell more interesting stories at parties, this book is for you. He uses stories that he's told at parties a ton of times as a way to frame many of the rules he offers. So this book can certainly help with your boring stories that make my eyes glaze over.